On 10/08/2010 06:54 PM, Goran Rakic wrote: > why don't you write all the names of all contributors, both individuals and companies, translators, etc?
The various pieces of paperwork that people that contributed to OOo had to sign, gave all of the rights to Sun. As such, Sun is/was the copyright holder. Assuming that Sun executed an assignment of all rights to Oracle, Oracle became the copyright holder when it purchased Sun. I'll let somebody else decide how safe it is to assume that Sun did execute such an assignment. It wouldn't be the first time that one company purchased another company, without having an assignment of copyright executed. [When Google starts playing hardball with Oracle, it will demand that Oracle produce the paperwork that demonstrates that Sun did assign all of its intellectual property rights to Oracle. If Oracle can't produce that paperwork .... ] jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address . It all gets forwarded to /dev/null -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
