Re: license [was Re: Doubts and Ideas]

[MJ Ray]

Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:23:44PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
  In any event, to resolve this issue completely

 While we're at it. Since we obviously have time-related issues with the
 complete solution :) can someone suggest an alternate phrasing for /license
 that would not be false? How do we reference webwml committers as a group
 without the reference being legally invalid?

I think we reference them as original authors and copyright holders
or similar. The committing is not really significant for copyright, is
it?

Suggested phrasing:

Copyright 1997-2006 a
href=http://cvs.debian.org/?root=webwml;original authors and
copyright holders/a and published by a
href=http://www.spi-inc.org/;Software in the Public Interest,
Inc./a, P.O. Box 501248, Indianapolis, IN 46250-6248, United States.
This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions
offered by the original authors [optional addition if we have a
required licence: or under the terms of ...]

Debian and the debian logo are trademarks of [...]

Hope that helps,
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license [was Re: Doubts and Ideas]

[Josip Rodin]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:23:44PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
 In any event, to resolve this issue completely

While we're at it. Since we obviously have time-related issues with the
complete solution :) can someone suggest an alternate phrasing for /license
that would not be false? How do we reference webwml committers as a group
without the reference being legally invalid?

Maybe we could replace the /license page with a script which would pull out
the usernames of all the committers for a given source file (via cvs log or
so) and print out the real names (via db.d.o, extra variables, etc) together
with years of changes. That would have two essential problems: a) revision
1.1 for some files isn't necessarily the original (some were imported), and
b) not all revisions necessarily constituted a copyrightable change.
Hence, I don't know if it would be worth it for the sake of copyright.
It might still be worth it for the sake of simply giving credit.

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