My understanding is that copyright always applies unless explicitly given up via a public domain declaration; registering with a copyright office is an *optional* step which doesn't affect the status of the work --- unregistered works are still copyrighted. The GPL license itself depends on the work being copyrighted, so this should make no difference to the licensing. I don't even know why they mentioned it.
(Although I don't know how things work in Turkey. It could be different there.) On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 15:12, Bagas Sanjaya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I filed RFP for PCYNLITX [1]. Although PCYNLITX is licensed under > GPLv3, the upstream applied copyright > registration to US and Turkey Copyright offices, as stated in the home page: > > - An application to the US Copyright office has been performed for the > modified version of the source code of the project > - A certificate of registration has been received from US Copyright office > for the source code of the project > - A certificate of registration has been received from the copyright office > of Turkey > > My question is can GPLed programs like PCYNLITX can be included in Debian, > if the upstream applied copyright to the source code of program? Cheers, > Bagas [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931400 > > -- > An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara > > -- ┌─── http://www.cowlark.com ─── │ "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my │ telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out │ how to use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup
