[GRASS-PSC] Re: [GRASS-dev] FWD Re: [Gdal-dev] GDAL on koders.com

[Brad Douglas]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:40 -0500, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2006, at 2:29, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > This copyright statement was preventing me from already uploading
> > it some time ago: "all its contents Copyright ..."
> > I don't know if they intentially wrote it but of course a
> > copyright transfer doesn't happen like that. So I don't know
> > - if this legally holds true in any case
> > - if GPL'ed code is affected
> >
> > The other GIS projects do not seem to see a problem
> > apparently.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> 
> It all looks good to me except for that copyright confusion, which  
> seems to come down to imprecise definition of "contents" versus  
> "linked material":
> 
> "This website and all its contents Copyright 2005, Koders Inc.
> All Rights Reserved."
> 
> ... could someone argue that "all contents" includes code?  I doubt  
> it, and it certainly seems to be to conflict with their denial of  
> liability:
> 
> "Content Linked to by Koders
> The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Koders Services  
> are developed by people over whom Koders exercises no control. The  
> search results that appear from Koders's indices are indexed by  
> Koders's automated machinery and computers, and Koders cannot and  
> does not screen the sites before including them in the indices from  
> which such automated search results are gathered." (from the terms of  
> service)
> 
> So it SEEMS fine to me from that point of view, BUT I'm not a lawyer,  
> and have no idea what a lawyer would think, nor whether, as Markus  
> suggests, maybe the language wouldn't be enough to be interpreted as  
> a transfer of copyright anyway.

I finally got some time to read the statements and they look completely
reasonable to me.  They hold no copyright on linked projects/code --
only their interface.


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