gEDA-dev: GPL3

[DJ Delorie]

> I routinely look at the copyright holder as I work on various geda based
> files. I have yet to see anyone claim any copyright ownership other
> then  Ales (though I know others have contributed) PCB is even worse...

> DJ do you have a copyright in there some place?

On pcb's files I create, yes, but I'm not strict about it.  The HID
files don't have individual copyright notices on them, but US law
say's they're owned by the author, notice or no notice.

Nothing in gEDA itself as my contribution there have either been
individually trivial, or not in the form of code.

> This is more of a legal issue but if one want's to claim a copyright
> ownership shouldn't they do so early? or to be more precise...
> should pcb or geda accept works where the ownership isn't
> transparent?

You're outside my experience now.  I know that many open source
projects are lax about such things, and some aren't.  FSF projects are
very strict.  DJGPP is mildly strict; I have assignments from the
major contributors but I let bug fixes slide if I think the patch size
is under the "significant" threshold (the FSF has guidelines about
that).