10-04-2022, 03:27 PM
Copyright is completely separate from licensing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Copyright which is automatically granted to the creator/owner of "something" gives the creator/owner the exclusive legal right to determine how the "thing" is to be used by others including not allowing any use of the "thing".
The License is what the Copyright holder assigns to the "thing" to specifies exactly how the "thing" is to be used. Without a License a Copyrighted "thing" by default cannot be used by others.
The License for moOde sources is GPLv3. It stipulates that the sources can be freely modified, the modifications automatically inherit the GPLv3 License and that those modifications must be made available to anyone that wants them.
The original source code for moOde was created by the Tsunamp project (later to become Rune and Volumio). This source code was Licensed under GPLv3 and so all the modifications made by the Moode project to those original sources are also GPLv3 by inheritance. For all the new files that I added I chose to also license them under GPLv3. There are other source files used in the moOde project whose authors used other licenses for example MIT but those licenses are all Open Source compatible.
Copyright which is automatically granted to the creator/owner of "something" gives the creator/owner the exclusive legal right to determine how the "thing" is to be used by others including not allowing any use of the "thing".
The License is what the Copyright holder assigns to the "thing" to specifies exactly how the "thing" is to be used. Without a License a Copyrighted "thing" by default cannot be used by others.
The License for moOde sources is GPLv3. It stipulates that the sources can be freely modified, the modifications automatically inherit the GPLv3 License and that those modifications must be made available to anyone that wants them.
The original source code for moOde was created by the Tsunamp project (later to become Rune and Volumio). This source code was Licensed under GPLv3 and so all the modifications made by the Moode project to those original sources are also GPLv3 by inheritance. For all the new files that I added I chose to also license them under GPLv3. There are other source files used in the moOde project whose authors used other licenses for example MIT but those licenses are all Open Source compatible.
