On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:35 +0100, Matthew East wrote: > 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.
This is an unfortunate effect of us not being vigilant in ensuring contributors add copyright elements to the DocBook files. I don't know the legal ramifications of copyright holders not stating their copyright in the document. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
