On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 forgot to mention earlier that unless you've talked to the FSF and filled out their copyright assignment forms, you have not assigned them to FSF. > > 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. See http://onlinepublishinglaw.com/may-a-copyright-be-transferred-electronically/ for an alternative (and I think correct, but IANAL) perspective on the issue. Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
