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[Dougal Campbell]

Tara Star wrote:

> forgive my ignorance, but does GPL mean the author still gets credit for 
> his work, or not? (I'm more in a creative commons frame of mind when 
> thinking about licenses, so I'm not too sure where GPL stands. Is it 
> like an attribution-sharealike cc license?)

Yes, under GPL the author gets full credit for the creation of the work. 
  Basically, it says that anyone can use the source. If they distribute 
any work which contains GPLed code, they must include the source, or 
provide a way to get the source (even if they just point back to the 
original archive, I think).

There's more to it than that, of course. But another thing to remember 
is that for code that you have created completely on your own, you can 
always use it under multiple licenses. You could release it to the 
public under GPL, but you could also separately license it to a company 
for use in a closed source product.

-- 
Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org>
http://dougal.gunters.org/