Re: [Koha-devel] copyright holder

[Kyle Hall]

As far as the GPL is concerned, MJ is correct in that the copyright of each persons contributions are still held by themselves. Katipo holds the copyright for alot of the code, Liblime holds the copyright for alot of it too. Just because Katipo wrote the original code does not mean that all modifications and additions are theirs. I hold the copyright for any code I've added, such as 
RotatingCollections.pm. For this reason, the license for Koha could not be changed without the agreement of every person who has worked on Koha. The same as with the Linux kernel. At least, this is how it works in the United States. I'm not well versed in French or British copyright law.

Kyle

On 4/27/07, Paul POULAIN <address@hidden> wrote:

Kyle Hall a écrit :
> I assume he means the trademark for Koha, and other such things. Not the
> actual copyright of the code itself. I think the issue has been mis-worded.

Not at all, i did not "mis-word the issue" ;-)

On almost each file, is written :
# Copyright 2000-2002 Katipo Communications
#
Look for example head/C4/Biblio.pm (was the script open on my desktop, I
did not choose)

About trademark : i've trademarked Koha for france, I think libLime did
it for US and katipo for NZ. None of us intend to use this trademark,
but thus we avoid someone else using is and suing us ;-)

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