On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:30:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > This leaves a few questions open: > > > > A) What does David Dawes regard as "attribution to [him]"?[1] If the > > responsibility for the CVS commit is attributed to him, as it appears > > to be in several of the above, does he consider the XFree86 1.1 > > license to attach to those changes? > I would really like to know this. I have not included such commits in my > most recent summary of potential XFree86 1.1 license issues in X.org.
I don't know the answer. Perhaps you could ask him, as my efforts over the past or so to obtain useful information from Mr. Dawes have been in vain. > The changes would generally be copyright their authors. I would think so, yes. > If the authors were contacted directly and released the patches, Dawes > could be ignored. I would think so, yes. > > B) What is Marc La France's policy regarding the application of the > > XFree86 1.1 license to modifications he makes to files that bear no > > copyright notice by him or by the XFree86 Project, Inc.? > Maybe someone could ask him personally? (Or is he not responding to your > mail either?) There were quite a lot of these, and likewise I have not > included them in that summary. I haven't asked Mr. La France personally, but given some of his messages[1][2] to the X.Org Foundation list, which are vigorously in favor of the new XFree86 license policy, I would wager he has adopted a policy similar to Mr. Dawes's. > > C) Does the XFree86 Project, Inc., consider patches submitted to their > > Bugzilla system to have any applicable copyrights therein assigned to > > them? > > It had better not; to my knowledge, that doesn't actually happen under US > law. There's no way that a voluntarily submitted thing from an outsider is > a "work for hire", and copyright assignments have to be signed and on > paper, last time I checked. That's the best of your and my knowledge; it has not been established that The XFree86 Project, Inc., its Board of Directors, or its President knows this. > > Is there someone who'd like to broach these questions with the XFree86 > > Project? My mails seem to go unanswered. > Don't mail them. Mail the individual authors, perhaps? Sure; it could be done. > > At any rate, for any of the above where we can get the licensing > > straightened out, I'd be happly to apply the relevant patches. It may > > be worth contacting Thomas Hellström and Luc Verhaegen to inquire as to > > the provenance of their patches. > Would it be worth contacting the others? Given a few anecdotes since the relicensing, I'd say yes. [1] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=xorg_foundation&id=100 [2] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=xorg_foundation&id=140 -- G. Branden Robinson | If you're handsome, it's flirting. Debian GNU/Linux | If you're a troll, it's sexual [EMAIL PROTECTED] | harassment. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- George Carlin
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