Hi Luis, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > "A transfer of copyright ownership ... is not valid unless an > instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is > in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such > owner's duly authorized agent."[1] > > UK law has a similar provision (UK Copyright, Design and Patents Act > 1988, s. 90(3).)
Interesting - that would appear to put a block on the idea. However it would be interesting to pursue the question of whether submitting patches or pushing to a revision control system could be considered a signature. Apart from anything else, if this is not possible, then it is probably be necessary to rethink the current copyright declarations of the user guide, which seem to purport that the copyright holders are Sun Microsystems and Shaun, respectively. http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/index-info.html.en My idea really was just an extension of that. Anyway, my vote goes to dual-licensing with cc-by-sa and gfdl, and an attempt to contact previous contributors for their permission to use material under the chosen license. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
