I'm sympathetic to this effort. Worst than the model being broken, it's copyright law and specially It's practice that's broken. IADNAL also. In our circumstances, I don't know of any solution that achieve the desired goals and provides an valid copyright. IADNAL
I'm reading this to educate myself: http://opensource.org/faq http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html http://producingoss.com On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Jerome Leclanche <jer...@leclan.ch> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback guys. > > Regarding the "LXQt contributors" not being a legal entity: I hear the > concern. The goal is to word it in such a way that the copyright is > broadly applied to whoever contributed to the project. I think my > current proposal covers this but I'm open to suggestions. > > The way I see it, the current model is broken either way. Anybody can > just come in and modify the copyright header, add their names to it > after fixing a typo or some such. And other devs who work on the other > 99.9% of the code won't necessarily bother to add their name. > > I'm going off my limited knowledge of copyright law here, and IADNAL > :) I'd love to hear other proposals, as long as they follow the main > goals: > > - Shrink the headers as much as possible > - Standardize them > - Remove the need to ever change them > > J. Leclanche -- Luís Pereira ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
