Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
The issue with the Debian website copyright is rather different and is much more complicated, because contacting all past contributors to that website, getting some sort of legal document signed with them, and convincing all current and future contributors to do the same would be a huge task.
Jimmy,
There is another way to go about it. Where copyrights are not explicitly stated, the Debian project can decide to uniformly make clear its own copyright upon its own web site, and make a /public notice /of its intention to do so, along with a call for past contributors to oppose and ask for their contribution to be removed before this takes place.
This can be done in finite time. This is only a clarification of a copyright that always existed. Anyone, past, present, or future, who asserts that a never-formally-stated copyright of a portion of the project's web site exists that is not owned by the project is just trying to obstruct the project.
There are individual documents such as the Debian Policy Manual that are copyrighted by their developers, but it's a really short list of people.
Thanks Bruce
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