Follow-up Comment #16, task #15348 (project administration): > Actually I'm paying great attention to the notices, thanks to what I've learned from people like you. But README and the example files do not constitute the main part of this project. It's very unlikely that one day we face a dispute over who their exact copyright holders are
Lightning strikes are also very unlikely; however, in certain cases lightning rods are mandatory, even though they don't always protect from lightning. > (even if that happens the records in the git repository will settle that). The records in the git repository typically don't contain the names of copyright holders. They record committers and authors (if the committer cares to write them down), no copyright holders. Also, the records of the repository won't help at the point where the repository isn't available. > I won't insist on using the phrase "The authors of FMD" in the notices of those files, but it would look awkward if, for example, the names of 10 people are listed in a short readme file because each of them added one paragraph or so. If people made a small addition, copyright notices needn't mention them <https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html> ("In that case, you should always include a copyright notice in the name of main copyright holder of the file."); moreover, contributions of 5-6 lines are not copyrightable at all. > Two final remarks: > 1. Despite my really great respect and debt to people who have worked on GNU, I don't like the term GNU/Linux. "GNU+Linux" will do; if your respect is so great, you could call it just "GNU". > I'm going to use phrases like "Operating Systems with Linux kernel" Does your package really depend on Linux more than on GNU? I guess, the users would have less issues with running it on top of GNU/kFreeBSD or maybe even GNU/Hurd than on top of Android, wouldn't they? > 2. We may have more than one host for this project (2 hosts are enough). I hope this isn't against your rules. The git repositories on all hosts will always be up-to-date. Yes, using additional external facilities is up to you. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15348> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/
