---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A07FC7F01C8; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:25:19 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <1.00CC125B@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:17:46 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 3506 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:16:51 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 8205; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:15:04 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-5.cisco.com [171.68.10.87] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with SMTP ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:15:03 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by sj-iport-5.cisco.com Received: from sj-core-4.cisco.com (171.68.223.138) by sj-iport-5.cisco.com with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2004 09:15:07 -0800 Received: from cisco.com (cypher.cisco.com [171.69.11.143]) by sj-core-4.cisco.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i0SHF4nG007629 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com (sjc-vpn1-220.cisco.com [10.21.96.220]) by cisco.com (8.8.8/2.6/Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10531 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:07:44 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Message-ID: <7F3B5669-51B4-11D8-9E8E-000A95E5DF26@mac.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:07:47 -0800 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: William Chops Westfield Subject: Re: [OT:] SCO lobbying Congress about Linux To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <4017E93C.2000700@Sun.Com> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856140 On Wednesday, Jan 28, 2004, at 08:54 US/Pacific, John Plocher wrote: > William Chops Westfield wrote: >> As an interesting question, can the AUTHOR of code that was >> released under GPL ever change the license terms? > > Of course they can. *They* are the copyright owner. > > Ok, now what happens once several additional authors have been added... If I make major changes to GPL'ed software, do I get to add myself to the copyright notice as well? Or does the original author end up owning the copyright to my code? BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics .