Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > No, you give rights (to modify and redistribute) via the license to > everybody, but not the copyright. As a copyright holder you can do anything > with your original code (re-license it, use commercially etc.) but anyone > else can only do

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > In practice this issue seldom arises as the whole idea of open source is > collaborative development, i.e., it explicitly allows others to modify and > redistribute the code. There is often at least a semi-centralized entity > that represen

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Simon Urbanek a écrit : On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Copyright is the right that the author of an original work holds automatically (unless someone else can claim to own his work - e.g. his employer etc.) under

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: > Copyright is the right that the author of an original work holds > automatically (unless someone else can claim to own his work - e.g. his > employer etc.) under the Berne Convent

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-12 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Guillaume Yziquel < guillaume.yziq...@citycable.ch> wrote: > Dominick Samperi a écrit : > > >> Interesting, but what about the situation where a new author adds his name >> as copyright holder without the >> consent of the original copyright holder, and with only o

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-12 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Dominick Samperi a écrit : Interesting, but what about the situation where a new author adds his name as copyright holder without the consent of the original copyright holder, and with only one person making the decision whether or not this change is warranted: the new copyright holder? Doesn't

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-12 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > Copyright is the right that the author of an original work holds > automatically (unless someone else can claim to own his work - e.g. his > employer etc.) under the Berne Convention. The copyright gives only the > author all rights - inclu

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bryan McLellan wrote: My company recently started using a R library from RCRAN that is licensed under the LGPL Version 2 or greater per the DESCRIPTION file, but contains no copy of the LGPL notice, or any copyright notice. I've grown accustomed to paying attention to copyri

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-01-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 18, 2010, at 23:06 , Bryan McLellan wrote: My company recently started using a R library I suspect you meant R package as R libraries have no DESCRIPTION ... from RCRAN that is licensed under the LGPL Version 2 or greater per the DESCRIPTION file, but contains no copy of the LGPL no

[Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-01-18 Thread Bryan McLellan
My company recently started using a R library from RCRAN that is licensed under the LGPL Version 2 or greater per the DESCRIPTION file, but contains no copy of the LGPL notice, or any copyright notice. I've grown accustomed to paying attention to copyright and licensing as a Debian package maintain