Topic: Properly copyrighting open source code

Hello world.

I am a lot into Open Source lately, with prudence, still, but...

I mean: I wish users would be all tech-savvy, it would make my job easier and more interesting, so what about sharing the non-commercial,
but rare gems?

And why not showing people that a legal framework exists for this, provided by the gnu software foundation:

Sample lgpl'ed source code:
http://www.beyondwonderland.com/data/java/java_OpenGL.zip

License reference / home:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

And ALL one has to do to make such a license "valid", adding this to the source code:

quote:

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one line to give the library's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) year name of author

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.

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

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:

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..so when Bill Gates will try to steal my billion dollar invention, I'll have what it takes to prosecute

An inch deeper in the world of open source licensing: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

Me thinks this will be very useful to me in the future. Am especially interested in the "OSI certification", no biggie, but a true way to join an OS syndicate,
and a very well structured one apparently.