On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Dan Scott wrote: > In that case, you should: > > 1) Have a legal entity that you can assign copyright to (PHP Group and > PHP Documentation Group are not legal entities and therefore cannot > hold copyright) and
Actually, I think the issue is more that: > > > However, a ~couple months ago IBM gave permission to remove this > > > copyright (because the authors are listed as general contributors, > > > thus representing IBM) although we've not yet implemented this > > > removal. We did [temporary] remove it about six months ago but... There is no requirement in most countries* to show that something is copyrighted, as it's a basic right. It's protected by default, so the whole "© 2005 IBM Corporation" is unnecessary. None of the other contributers ever required something like this. * Atleast in the Netherlands, and what I gather from wikipedia also in the US through the Berne convention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works) regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org
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