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Software copyright is the extension of copyright law to machine-readable software
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Do legal names matter with source code licensing in the USA?
Therefore, whenever you encounter a work that contains copyrightable expression, you should assume it is already under copyright (assuming the copyright has not expired and the work does not predate the … Copyright does not protect pseudonyms or other names.
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In no case should you omit the name of the copyright claimant [i.e., the declared copyright owner, when registering a copyright]. …
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Is renewal of MIT license needed on github at the beginning of each year?
That year in your code is part of a copyright notice. It indicates the effective creation date of your software, which affects the time window of your copyright. … Updating your copyright notice to include a year in which you made no copyrightable changes would be a misrepresentation of your copyright term. …
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GPL Copyright notice in fork of dual licenced software when copyright of original has been s...
that removing their copyright notice is the right thing even if there is a new copyright holder. … It appears that your first option is correct:
@copyright 1999-2009 name of original programmer
@copyright 2009-2014 our names
assuming that the software you received had the original header:
@copyright …
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How do I deal with a MIT project with no included copyright notice?
The best thing to do is contact the original author and request that he or she update the repository to include a proper license file and copyright notice, along with license headers and copyright notices … author claimed that it was MIT-licensed in some authoritative way, and furthermore
the original author is the only author of all the work in the codebase (or you can correctly identify all authors and/or copyright …
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Who is the copyright owner of a contribution (commit) to a GPL-licensed project?
Absent any agreement of copyright assignment, Alice and Bob individually hold copyright over each piece of their own code. … copyright holder without consulting every author who ever contributed. …
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