On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:24 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear foundation members, > > What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected > copyright > assignment? > > I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome > translation team. > > Up till now, the copyrights have been assigned to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc. > > I have personally contacted the individual contributors who gave me their > permission (informal) to change the copyright assignments in the po-files for > those translators that had retained copyright and assign that to FSF. > > I have acted so up till now in private conversations. > > Is there an official policy of copyright assignment by contributors?
There is no official policy. > Who would hold principally the copyright? Individual authors (or their employers, as appropriate.) > I have acted up till now from practical standpoint - a common copyright > holder > would find it actually more easy to manage and re-license code. > > Furthermore - will there ever be relicensing of the software? Given the problem you highlight (vast amounts of code whose copyright is held by a very distributed set of owners instead of a central owner, including some sections which are GPL v2-only) this seems unlikely; or, at least, unlikely without a concerted effort over the course of years to seek out copyright holders and rewrite code. [I would like to investigate whether or not GPL v3 is appropriate for GNOME, but that seems mostly an academic/intellectual exercise.] Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
