On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 22:28 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Matthew East <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <snip discussion of dual-licensing; I can't speak to whether or not >> docs will need to be completely rewritten or not> >> >> > For the future I'd also suggest that contributors automatically assign >> > copyright in the material they produce to the members of a specific >> > and identifiable gnome-doc group or the Gnome Foundation to enable >> > copyright transitions to be smoother. >> >> This is not a bad idea; that said at the moment the Foundation doesn't >> have much (read: any) infrastructure for this. > > IANAL (but Luis almost is), but I don't think you can > "automatically" assign copyright. Contributors would > have to sign something and send it in.
I had missed the word 'automatically' in there. You're correct that a 'writing' or contract is required (though I believe that, at least under US law, an actual physical 'writing' is no longer necessary) so it probably could not be anything you or I would consider 'automatic'. It could probably be fairly lightweight (and hence not much of a discouragement to new contributors) but that would still require some infrastructure that we don't have. > Just suggesting it would make no > real difference, because the people who would bother > are most likely regular contributors, i.e. people we > don't have a hard time getting in touch with. Right. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
