Re: License of code posted to this list

[David Bellows]

> Yes.  I'm happy to license this under the GPL.

In that case if you could add the following notice (substituting your
name, etc) to the top of the attached auto-ottava file then I think
we'd have it:

<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Thanks, and sorry for all the extra work! (Though I am a little
surprised this hasn't come up before?)

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:33 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Am 09.05.2015 um 23:06 schrieb David Bellows:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure so this maybe wrong. But AFAIK copyright for content posted
>>>> to the list is by default with the author and has no license by itself. So 
>>>> I
>>>> think you can't assume it's PD.
>>>
>>>
>>> This sounds correct as well. Does just making the code available to
>>> the world in a public manner imply anything about it being OK to use
>>> it in another project? I don't know the answer to that and thus these
>>> questions. But you are correct, I'm betting, that the author does
>>> automatically own the copyright to the code (at least in the US).
>>>
>>> Should there be some kind of agreement that everyone signs off on when
>>> subscribing to the mail list concerning any code they might
>>> contribute?
>>
>>
>> I *think* I've read an agreement somewhere that explicitly states what I
>> wrote before, so if that's true we explicitly have no PD on the list.
>>
>>>
>>> And is the line that David added sufficient?:
>>>
>>>> I'm more than happy to let you use the "auto-ottava" code for your
>>>> project.  By posting it on this forum I make it available to anybody
>>>> who sees utility in it.
>>
>>
>> I would say you can take this as a sufficient "license agreement" that
>> overrides the general list rules ;-)
>
>
> Yes.  I'm happy to license this under the GPL.
>
> David
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