>Alain: We have a problem here though. It will be difficult to attribute
>a precise author for work done collectively. Who gets mentionned? In
>what order? If a hundred people participated, do they all get cited?
>If, instead, we decide to declare that OODL is the Copyright Holder,
>nothing is solved either because the membership of the OODL is in
>perpetual motion.
Alain,
I think the people who added to a file will themselves take care that they
are mentioned as copyright holders of a part by adding that to the source
file. Of course, the person who then merges all changed sources (or some
Version Control Software if we ever get that far) will have to take care to
add all names to the file's header.
But there should be a distinction between people who apply small bug fixes
and people who actually re-write a good part. A re-write should change the
copyright, or at least add to it, while I think fixing a typo should go in
the "Thanks To" section w/o giving Copyright to that person. Else we'll be
at dozens of Copyright holders in no time.
Also, we need a clause that specifies what happens if a copyright holder
doesn't leave a valid e-mail address. Then the other (c) holders should be
entitled to decide w/o that person, or that person may appoint someone to
take care of that in his stead.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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