Re: [gentoo-user] Doubts about how to create a free software project

[Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales]

You mean something like this?

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On the top of every file?

2005/9/16, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>:
> On 16 September 2005 04:31, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >    I work with biotech and for about an 1 year I've been working on a
> > web interface for genome/proteome data analysis. And I'd like to make
> > it free software. But I still have doubts about legal problems I might
> > face and about intellectual property.
> >     Basically, I don't want to restrict people on using and
> > contributing with source or whatever, but don't want anyone taking
> > credit for my work or pateting it and sending me a cease-and-desist
> > letter.
> >    If anyone has any insight, references or links on this subject,
> > please let me know.
>
> 1. Step
> You make sure the stuff is your. So you stamp a copyright message all over it.
> Basically, you put a copyright notification in each and every file. Now you
> have made clear it is *your* intellectual property.
>
> 2. Step
> You have to put it under an OSS license that suits you best. I guess the two
> most widely used OSS licenses are the General Public License (GPL) and the
> BSD license. There are quite some differences between them. In a nutshell:
> The GPL does not allow to include any of your stuff in a piece of software
> that is not under the GPL. In other words, Whoever wants to build software
> based on yours has to make the result OSS under GPL as well. The BSD license
> basically allows any use of your software as long as the copyright remains
> unchanged (which prevents anyone from patenting it) and the result credits
> you.
>
> All that said, if someone with a lot of money grabs your stuff an - say -
> patents it you still have to challenge them in court which can take
> considerable time and money. The GPL has a slight advantage in this case
> because the Free Software Foundation (FSF) will help you legally.
>
> You should read through the available licenses even if they are a boring
> read. ;-)
>
> Uwe
>
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