Re: [LAD] students and copyright

Referring to the copyleft statements by Stallman and the FSF you can have a copyright by FLOSS, by GNU, but not by the GPL itself. The institute might have a copyright for the software's name and the logos, but each coder has to copyleft his changes on GPL code.

Students or developers for proprietary companies that don't use GPL code might lost the copyright for their intellectual property because of contracts. What ever I have done for Brauner microphones when I worked for him, is owned by Brauner and not by me. I was paid to do it, even if I was disproportional bad paid. Students won't get money, but the universities might have contracts with the students, resp. with proprietary companies that cooperate with universities, so they might have to pay less college tuitions. For the GPL there only seems to be one way. The coder needs to keep the original author and to add his name and the date when he changed GPL code and if he writes complete new code, he needs to add his name and need it to do by matching to GPL versions of GPL code done by other authors, that is included to his project. No institute can take on a copyright, while the institute is using GPL licensed code. I don't understand the GPL, but this is repeated and repeated by Stallman and the FSF. I don't think, that I'm mistaken, but I might be wrong.