[ubuntu-in] General OpenSourcing Doubt !

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 23:42, Venkatesan Padmanabhan
<venkatesanp89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone, Then basically to appreciate something as your creation
> (though you allow anyone to reuse/modify) you need to copyright it.
>
> @Shrinivasan
> How will GPL ensure it is our work (ie. you are the original creators) if
> you dont own an copyright for it?
>
> and Thanks Parthan, Mine is case (2)


Hi Venkatesan,
             Shall we use a concrete example to show what Shakti means.

This is the copyright file of ubiquity and taken from
/usr/share/doc/ubiquity/copyright in its entirety.

"Ubiquity was formerly known as "Espresso", and originally as "Ubuntu
Express", which is written and maintained by Javier Carranza
<javier.carranza at interactors.coop> and Juanje Ojeda Croissier
<juanje at interactors.coop>. This version draws on the work done on Ubuntu
Express, but was renamed to avoid confusion, to reduce awkward branding
considerations, and because Ubiquity concentrates on reusing
debian-installer code and reducing duplicated translation and branding work
as much as possible. Ubiquity has now substantially diverged from Ubuntu
Express and is an independent project.

The original Guadalinex source can be found at:
	http://ws314.juntadeandalucia.es/guadalinex2005/live_installer/

and Ubiquity is developed at:
	http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/

Copyright (C) 2005  Javier Carranza
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009  Canonical Ltd.

Ubiquity has been adapted for usage by the Mythbuntu
team for the purposes of a Ubuntu derivative focused
upon setting up a standalone MythTV box.

Portions copyright (C) 2007 Mario Limonciello

License:

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
  02110-1301, USA.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

ubiquity.png KDE icon copyright 2007 David Vignoni.
License: LGPL 3, see /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL "

As one can see, the software has been developed by somebody else
before Canonical took over, as well as content (i.e. the icon is of
somebody else's) so in that manner you could very well write a
copyright file which is distributed alongwith your work.

> Venkatesan Padmanabhan
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