From jeff at bioinformatics.org  Tue Apr  3 05:35:25 2001
From: jeff at bioinformatics.org (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:47 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
Message-ID: <3AC9995D.2A6CEE5D@bioinformatics.org>

Here is some information about US copyright:

  http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html

It's pretty simple.  Notice of copyright and registration are NOT required,
but registration may be helpful if there are legal problems.  It also mentions
joint authorship and international works.  Good reading ;-)

Basically, we want to give notice of copyright for each release of Piper.  And
for every new contributor, unless the person waives their copyright, we need
to list all authors and the earliest year of collaboration.  So, for example,
when we combined code bases, it was 2000, and the copyright would read
(alphabetical order):

  Copyright (C) 2000 J.W. Bizzaro
                     Brad Chapman
                     Deanne Taylor
                     Jean-Marc Valin
                     Jarl van Katwijk

But, if we got a new contributor in 2001, John Doe, the notice would read:

  Copyright (C) 2001 J.W. Bizzaro
                     Brad Chapman
                     Deanne Taylor
                     John Doe
                     Jean-Marc Valin
                     Jarl van Katwijk

The law says that the copyright is enforced for 70 years after the death of
the last surviving author.  So, shall we place bets?  ;-)

Cheers.
Jeff


From jarl at xs4all.nl  Tue Apr  3 09:04:39 2001
From: jarl at xs4all.nl (Jarl van Katwijk)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:47 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
References: <3AC9995D.2A6CEE5D@bioinformatics.org>
Message-ID: <3AC9CA67.C0AE782F@xs4all.nl>

> The law says that the copyright is enforced for 70 years after the death of
> the last surviving author.  So, shall we place bets?  ;-)


Hehe ;)
I looked up the european laws on this subject, and it's very close to
the USA variant. Just the lenght of protection is slightly shorter: 50
years. 

(http://158.169.50.95:10080/legal/en/ipr/software/text.html)

jarl


From jmvalin at locusdialogue.com  Tue Apr  3 14:28:55 2001
From: jmvalin at locusdialogue.com (Jean-Marc Valin)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:47 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
References: <3AC9995D.2A6CEE5D@bioinformatics.org>
Message-ID: <3ACA1667.3BF02D5A@locusdialogue.com>

>   Copyright (C) 2000 J.W. Bizzaro
>                      Brad Chapman
>                      Deanne Taylor
>                      Jean-Marc Valin
>                      Jarl van Katwijk

Just a detail...

As of now, depending on whether or not this is supposed to include the
Overflow copyright, you should either remove my name, or add Dominic
Letourneau.

	Jean-Marc


From jeff at bioinformatics.org  Tue Apr  3 16:50:14 2001
From: jeff at bioinformatics.org (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:47 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
References: <3AC9995D.2A6CEE5D@bioinformatics.org> <3ACA1667.3BF02D5A@locusdialogue.com>
Message-ID: <3ACA3786.8C127057@bioinformatics.org>

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> As of now, depending on whether or not this is supposed to include the
> Overflow copyright, you should either remove my name, or add Dominic
> Letourneau.

Ooops.  I forgot about Dominic.  Yes, if we are considering non-Oveflow
Piper, then you and Dominic would need to have some code in it.  I hope that
will happen someday ;-)  Is there anything of yours in the codebase now? 
Did you help with any IDL's etc.?

Jeff


From jmvalin at locusdialogue.com  Tue Apr  3 18:56:55 2001
From: jmvalin at locusdialogue.com (Jean-Marc Valin)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:47 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
References: <3AC9995D.2A6CEE5D@bioinformatics.org> <3ACA1667.3BF02D5A@locusdialogue.com> <3ACA3786.8C127057@bioinformatics.org>
Message-ID: <3ACA5537.650AF5B5@locusdialogue.com>

> Ooops.  I forgot about Dominic.  Yes, if we are considering non-Oveflow
> Piper, then you and Dominic would need to have some code in it.  I hope that
> will happen someday ;-)  Is there anything of yours in the codebase now?
> Did you help with any IDL's etc.?

So far, unless someone copied some Overflow code, Dominic and I have no
copyright in non-Overflow Piper. Concerning Overflow, the three
copyright holders are Dominic, Brad and I (maybe Jarl, I'm not sure?).

	Jean-Marc


From jarl at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr  4 04:53:21 2001
From: jarl at xs4all.nl (Jarl van Katwijk)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:47 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
References: <3AC9995D.2A6CEE5D@bioinformatics.org> <3ACA1667.3BF02D5A@locusdialogue.com> <3ACA3786.8C127057@bioinformatics.org> <3ACA5537.650AF5B5@locusdialogue.com>
Message-ID: <3ACAE101.14DC7A68@xs4all.nl>

Hi JM,

> copyright holders are Dominic, Brad and I (maybe Jarl, I'm not sure?).

I only coded the BBL\PLmain for Piper, and used the library, no code of
mine got into the Overflow source tree.

jarl


From jeff at bioinformatics.org  Wed Apr 18 13:51:53 2001
From: jeff at bioinformatics.org (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:20:48 2006
Subject: [Pipet Devel] Re: renaming a project
Message-ID: <3ADDD439.2CAC4993@bioinformatics.org>

>From Freshmeat:

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:02:52PM -0400, J. W. Bizzaro via RT wrote:

> If a project owner changes the name of his project, will that name become
> available for use?  For example, if "myproject" changes to "aproject",
> will someone else be able to register a different program called
> "myproject"?

Yes.