On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:23:57 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:05:00PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
Good point, but where does it claim so?
In the footer of every page. My quote:
Copyright © 1997-2011 SPI and others; See license terms
can be found in the
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 23:17:02 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:40:35PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
I think that this is exactly what people opposing to copyright
assignment want to avoid: giving permission to re-license under yet
unknown terms.
I don't think you
Hello!
I see there's (at last) some activity on bug #388141 [1].
I am happy to see that, but I personally think it's going in a slightly
wrong direction... :-(
First of all, a brief summary of bug #238245 [2] and of bug #388141 [1]
(which started as a clone of #238245 [2]), for debian-legal
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:50:17 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 07:38:24PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
Secondly, the web site claims [3] to be copyrighted by SPI, while it's
not [5].
As a side point: the above claim of yours is no longer true, see
#632175. The web
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 07:38:24PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
Recent discussions on bug #388141 [1] (starting at message #206),
include a plan to ask for copyright assignments to SPI from all future
and (then) past contributors.
I think this is the wrong approach.
The Debian Project does
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:15:03 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
[...]
A possible way out, that I'm hereby suggesting, is to ask for the right
to re-license (instead of copyright assignment), but to ask a blanket
permission to re-license under any DFSG-free license the -www team will
see fit, now
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:40:35PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
I think that this is exactly what people opposing to copyright
assignment want to avoid: giving permission to re-license under yet
unknown terms.
I don't think you should make absolute statements for *all* the people
opposing
Le Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
I'm under the *impression* that an important amount of people objecting
copyright assignments do so to avoid the risk that their contributions
get re-licensed under terms that go against their moral beliefs about
software
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I don't think you should make absolute statements for *all* the
people opposing copyright assignments, while being yourself only one
of them.
I personally don't really see the need for copyright assignments,
unless we foresee the need to enforce
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