On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:24 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear foundation members, > > What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected copyright > assignment? > > I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome > translation team. > > Up till now, the copyrights have been assigned to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc. > > I have personally contacted the individual contributors who gave me their > permission (informal) to change the copyright assignments in the po-files for > those translators that had retained copyright and assign that to FSF. > > I have acted so up till now in private conversations.
IANALTTL (I am not a lawyer, talk to Luis), but my understanding is that copyright assignment requires signing a piece of paper to be valid. I don't think private email exchanges cut it, legally. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
