Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of 2D Cut-Out Animation System

[Loic Dachary]

Viva La_Résistance writes:
 > >Ok, got the tarbal. Note that you will want to add the copyright
 > >notice to the data files too so that they are covered by the GPL. I saw
 > >that some .cc files have no copyright notice but the others have a very
 > >well formated copyright notice. I guess it's just a temporary mistake.
 > 
 > Yeah, the missing GPL notices on the .cc files was just me missing a few 
 > when I put the notices on them. It's been fixed now.
 > 
 > For the data files, I didn't know what would be better to do, so I left them 
 > blank. Many of them are also based off of commercial characters (It's 
 > probably about the equivalent of painting a painting of a photo ... unless 
 > digital stuff is treated differenctly). Would that cause any problems to me 
 > copyrighting the models?

        I'm unclear what you mean by "based off of commercial characters" ?
Does this mean that it's derived work of characters released under a 
proprietary license ? If so you definitively have a problem. Maybe it's
something else. Could you clarify this point ?

 > For both the .cc files and the data files, I haven't filed for any 
 > copyrights with any copyright office. Is doing that important (and if so, 
 > how should I go about it)?

        You don't need to do that.

        Cheers,

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