[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13730) Licensing

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13730 >

Christian Knoke wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13730 >
> 
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:54:18AM -0700, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> 
>>I recall the discussion in ticket #3589 on licensing of previously 
>>contributed work: The Cuban nation submitted in this patch is 
>>originally by Cederik De Leon Acuna. Do I have to contact him about 
>>this?
> 
> 
> Shouldn't we just put all names of authors and contributors of a ruleset in
> the comment part of that nation's file?
> 
> Is this enough for the legal matter?
> 
> I don't think you have to contact any previous authors, just keep their
> names. But IANAL.

We have to be sure the rulesets are GPL.  If they are included as a 
patch this is implied (since the GPL is viral like that).  If not, it 
may still be implied but we should contact the author to make sure.

Yes, including the author names in the ruleset may help.

-jason