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Does extending GPL code make the new code GPL too?

I am currently adding some functionality to a popular open source project. It written in C and in Every file GPL license text is embedded. The functionality I am adding is not supported by the project. So you can say its some sort of extending.

ISC license advice

Is the ISC license suitable as a MIT or Simplified BSD license replacement?

Give open-source developers a free license for my commercial software?

I am creating a software package that will be useful to programmers, engineers and scientists. List price will be in the region of $1,000 — way beyond the budget of most open-source developers, hobbyists and enthusiasts. So I am considering two things, the first generous, the second maybe a little greedy:

Open Source Project: Company to register copyright

I’m releasing an open source project. I want to make it as inclusive as possible for any community that might embrace it. Specifically, I don’t want the code copyrighted in my name when an entire community might work on it; that approach seems self-centred and alienating. My immediate thought to avoid this issue is to assign the copyright to a company rather than myself. How do I do this? Do I have to register a corporation? Can I just give the name of a group and call that a company? What legal hurdles are there? I honestly have no idea when it comes to this sort of thing.