On 07/02/2013 07:51 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: >> As many of you are well aware, John Hunter has been the sole copyright >> holder on matplotlib from the beginning. I'm sorry it's taken nearly a year >> to do this (as can often happen in sad situations like this), but I think we >> do need to address it going forward. >> >> I have a PR for this change in #2195. >> >> Heavily influenced by the IPython licensing, I propose to move us to a >> shared copyright model, where authors retain copyright on their individual >> contributions, but the code base as a whole belongs to the entire community >> of contributors. > Purely as a legal matter, I believe that what you mean is, you're > suggesting updating the documentation in the source files to more > accurately reflect the current model? Unless everyone's been signing > written documents transferring their copyright (which is the only > effective way to transfer copyright in the US and AFAIK most other > jurisdictions), then right now matplotlib's copyright is owned by the > community of contributors, and has been so long as there have been > contributors. > IANAL, but I assumed as much. The real problem I'm trying to resolve is that the explicitly specified copyright (whether it applies or not) is still John Hunter.
IPython changed from explicitly listing individuals in their copyright line to referring to the IPython community fairly recently, and obviously under different circumstances. Fernando -- was there a particular impetus for that or model you were following? Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
