[Freepats] Re: GPL for sound samples

[Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail]

El Vie 14 Abr 2006 15:58, Mark Constable escribió:
> >     I think they are a little confused about the GPL copyrigth
> > notice: I think they believe that, as the GPL was created by FSF,
> > they should put this notice "Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Free Software
> > Foundation" in theirs sound samples packages:
> >
> > No, that is a confusion.  The copyright notice should give the name
> > of the real copyright holder, which would normally be the author.
>
> In the case of a multi-sample soundfont set, this could include
> dozens, or more, of individual authors... from a previous message...
>
>  The issue here is that there will be multiple contributors to
>  an instrument patch set, most likely a sf2 format soundfount,
>  and one way to deal with that in, the context of the GPL, is for
>  all contributors to assign to a single "neutral owner" of which
>  the FSF is the most obvious entity.

Now I see it, thanks, and sorry if I bother :S

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