Em 12-07-2012 16:29, Bradley M. Kuhn escreveu:
Alain Mouette wrote:
This is not good. In case of a court dispute, all copyright owners
have to be present. So if you want the copyright do be good for
something, it has to be nominal!
Alain, I'm not sure I understand your point. Any given copyright holder
can enforce the license -- Denys, Erik, and Conservancy together as
copyright holders do this often without involvement of other copyright
holders. Having more copyright holders involved in GPL enforcement is
good, and if other copyright holders want to be involved, they should of
course contact me and I can get you all setup (the advantage to this is
you also get direct input into the process of how Conservancy does
enforcement).
However, it's not required that all copyright holders be present to act.
As a practical matter, you need enough copyright holders present such
that your copyrights can't be trivially written out by a GPL violator,
but with Conservancy, Erik, and Denys, we meet that bar easily already
on BusyBox.
from FSF:
http://producingoss.com/pt-br/copyright-assignment.html
If no single entity has the right to do it, all the contributors might
have to cooperate, but some might not have time or even be reachable
when the issue arises.
That is what I read...
Alain
Meanwhile, it's also not required that the notices appear perfectly in
the copyright material, either. Notices are helpful for the reasons I
explained above, but they aren't mandatory.
As usual, IANAL, TINLA, etc.
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