[CLUE-Talk] How do I credit another author under the GPL

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, BOF wrote:

> OK, so I've taken a firewall script from a book, modified it for my own
> use on a stand-alone workstation with one ethernet card and want to post
> it for others to use. It was originally written under the GPL.
>
> How do I credit it to the other author, and then credit it to me for my
> changes?

Here's an example from a video driver in the kernel:

/*
    bt819 - BT819A VideoStream Decoder (Rockwell Part)

    Copyright (C) 1999 Mike Bernson <mike at mlb.org>
    Copyright (C) 1998 Dave Perks <dperks at ibm.net>

    Modifications for LML33/DC10plus unified driver
    Copyright (C) 2000 Serguei Miridonov <mirsev at cicese.mx>

    This code was modify/ported from the saa7111 driver written
    by Dave Perks.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program 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 General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/

Take care,

Zonker
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