On 8/6/07, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kjartan Maraas wrote:
Is there a rule of thumb as to how much code is contributed before this
applies? I've always assumed that writing new code gives you the right
to add yourself, but fixing bugs in existing code is a different matter?
The original reason that the FSF was advised to get copyright
assignments from all contributors to a program is that simplifying the
copyright status of the program facilitates going to court.
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fre, 03.08.2007 kl. 11.20 -0400, skrev Havoc Pennington:
btw a good habit everyone should try to have is, when you modify a file
add your name and date to the copyright list at the top. When
submitting or reviewing a patch, should check for this.
I know I often forget it
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Wood wrote:
During discussions about copyright at GUADEC several people mentioned
that developers were not encouraged to assign copyright to the GNOME
Foundation.
From my point of view, not encouraged isn't the way I see things.
Certainly no-one has done so so far, and
On 8/3/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Wood wrote:
During discussions about copyright at GUADEC several people mentioned
that developers were not encouraged to assign copyright to the GNOME
Foundation.
From my point of view, not encouraged isn't the way I see
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:06:39 -0400
Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
A couple of developers, including myself, have been working on a
new capplet for the control center. Since we had been working on
it as a group we decided it would be fairest to assign copyright
to the
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:56 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Wood wrote:
During discussions about copyright at GUADEC several people mentioned
that developers were not encouraged to assign copyright to the GNOME
Foundation.
From my point of view, not encouraged isn't the way
btw a good habit everyone should try to have is, when you modify a file
add your name and date to the copyright list at the top. When
submitting or reviewing a patch, should check for this.
I know I often forget it when I review and submit patches, but it's
always correct and
Hi,
During discussions about copyright at GUADEC several people mentioned
that developers were not encouraged to assign copyright to the GNOME
Foundation.
A couple of developers, including myself, have been working on a new
capplet for the control center. Since we had been working on it as a
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:06 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
While we have been discussing this issue, we also discovered that many
of the source files in control center did not have copyright
statements and those that did were probably out of date and did not
include the names of all the
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 12:49 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:06:39 -0400
Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
A couple of developers, including myself, have been working on a
new capplet for the control center. Since we had been working on
it as a group we
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:40:39PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
ownership. When multiple companies (Red Hat, Novell, Sun, ...) own
copyright on a package, it's harder to do something wrong (for example,
to relicense the package under a new license).
Is this always something wrong? I guess
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:48 +0200, Juan José Sánchez Penas wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:40:39PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
ownership. When multiple companies (Red Hat, Novell, Sun, ...) own
copyright on a package, it's harder to do something wrong (for example,
to relicense the
On 8/3/07, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:48 +0200, Juan José Sánchez Penas wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:40:39PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
ownership. When multiple companies (Red Hat, Novell, Sun, ...) own
copyright on a package, it's harder to
If the developers of some component of GNOME want to make it formally
a GNU package, they can assign copyright to the FSF.
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quote who=Thomas Wood
During discussions about copyright at GUADEC several people mentioned that
developers were not encouraged to assign copyright to the GNOME
Foundation.
Not so much not encouraged as no one's ever done it before and we haven't
created the necessary
quote who=Thomas Wood
We were aware of this, but since contributions mean that there are often a
half a dozen different contributors to one file, we thought it may be
easier to assign copyright and then list the contributors as authors.
Copyright assignment generally doesn't make things for
quote who=Rodrigo Moya
hmm, sorry to say that, but I was under the impression this was suggested
many years ago (2/3 or maybe 4), and indeed I've written some code myself
assigning the copyright to the foundation. Usually small stuff that is not
in GNOME, but I just had a look, and the whole
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