On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:18:05PM -0700, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
>
> >Has any FOSS developer ever been found liable (or even sued)?
> >
> >Not that I have any objections to this plan but it might be worth
> >considering that it's much easier to sue a single entity then it is to
> >file a tort again
Has any FOSS developer ever been found liable (or even sued)?
Not that I have any objections to this plan but it might be worth
considering that it's much easier to sue a single entity then it is to
file a tort against a few tens or hundreds of contributors.
Yes, the guy who wrote an open sou
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:34:50PM +0200, Allison Randal wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:26, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
>
> >Which is what I've been doing
> >but It's my understanding that copyright can only be transfered by a
> >written argument.
>
> Yes, and in fact we won't be doing copyright *tran
On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:26, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
Does sticking "Copyright The Perl Foundation" at the top of a file
constitute a legal transfer of copyright?
No, there's no such thing as an implicit transfer of copyright rights.
Which is what I've been doing
but It's my understanding that co
Does sticking "Copyright The Perl Foundation" at the top of a file
constitute a legal transfer of copyright? Which is what I've been doing
but It's my understanding that copyright can only be transfered by a
written argument. This next statement isn't intending to stir up a
flame-war but does TPF
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 02:21:38PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep running accros files that at the top of the file say they are
> copyrighted to individual people, then adding stuff to the code as surely
> many others have. Am I right in thinking that everything is supposed
On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:42, Will Coleda wrote:
I was under the impression that for any code to be included in the
parrot repository, that the copyright had to be assigned to the Perl
Foundation. But there are exceptions to this throughout the
repository, even in core files like imcc/main.c (Copyr
I originally wrote IMCC was a separate module, and I even released it on CPAN.
For a long time it lived in languages/imcc but Leo rolled it in at some point.
Copyrighting my code does not limit my ability to contribute it to a project
under a dual copyright. I have never heard what the final deci
> At 12:16 on 07/10/2003 PDT, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >At 11:56 AM -0700 7/10/03, Robert Spier wrote:
> >>s/Yet Another Society/The Perl Foundation/g
> >
> >The Perl Foundation is just a dba of YAS. The name should, unless
> >things have changed, be YAS.
We're generally encour
I can make such a change if you tell me exactly how it should be done.
(I am not a lawyer, so i don't want to do this inappropriately).
I'd think a safe first step would be to change any "When this is
determined" to "Yet Another Society". But beyond that it gets fuzzy to
me.
--Josh
At 12:
At 11:56 AM -0700 7/10/03, Robert Spier wrote:
s/Yet Another Society/The Perl Foundation/g
The Perl Foundation is just a dba of YAS. The name should, unless
things have changed, be YAS.
Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
All --
I noticed that there are many files with copyrights of
"when this is determined.
Robert --
I just ran a little script (pasted at the end), and here
is what we have, today:
Total regular files:2793
When this is determined is in: 108
Yet Another Society is in: 32
The Perl Foundation is in: 0
Regards,
-- Gregor
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 14:56, Robert Spier wro
s/Yet Another Society/The Perl Foundation/g
Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
All --
I noticed that there are many files with copyrights of
"when this is determined...", while some files have a
copyright of Yet Another Society. Seems like they should
all be Yet Another, or none should be...
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