[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 <paul.poulain at free.fr> 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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> Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie
> (http://www.koha-fr.org)
> Tel : 04 91 31 45 19
>



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