zwiki copyright status

2004-11-12 Thread Bob McElrath
The ZWiki project (a wiki engine for the Zope framework, package zope-zwiki in debian main) contains a copyright statement on files: (c) 1999-2003 Simon Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the zwiki community. The project is GPL2, however the maintainer (Simon Michael) desires that he own the

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Poole
(Cc'ed to OP since I am not sure whether he subscribes to -legal.) Bob McElrath writes: > 1. Does the above constitute a valid copyright transfer? Given the > above, what is the copyright status of this project? Are the copyrights > still held by individual contributors or are they (in your leg

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:11:18PM -0800, Bob McElrath wrote: > 1. Does the above constitute a valid copyright transfer? Given the > above, what is the copyright status of this project? Are the copyrights > still held by individual contributors or are they (in your legal > opinion) actually held

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
Please drop [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the CC list; it's not an appropriate address to be CCing list discussions. Note that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing ("User unknown"). -- Glenn Maynard

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-12 Thread Bob McElrath
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please drop [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the CC list; it's not an appropriate > address to be CCing list discussions. > > Note that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing ("User unknown"). I made a note of this on the page from which I obtained that email address... --

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Our questions are these: 1. Does the above constitute a valid copyright transfer? Given the above, what is the copyright status of this project? Are the copyrights still held by individual contributors or are they (in you

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-18 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks for this thread. That's pretty much what I figured. My (vague) assumption was that by getting at least verbal agreement, I would have a good chance of getting written agreement later if a need arose. Now I've got a situation where a contributor does not agree to assign copyright, and I'

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob McElrath An email which clearly says "I assign my copyright in this patch ..." is probably good enough, provided it's signed so you can prove it's not forged. http://profs.lp.findlaw.com/signatures/signature_4.html is interestin

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-20 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob McElrath > > >An email which clearly says "I assign my copyright in this patch ..." is > >probably good enough, provided it's signed so you can prove it's not > >forged. > > http://profs.lp.findlaw.co

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: See http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/legal/en/ecommerce/digsig.html I think you meant: http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/legal/en/ecommerc/digsig.html Unfortunately, the link to the directive on that page is 404 compliant.

Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-24 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > I think you meant: > > http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/legal/en/ecommerc/digsig.html > > Unfortunately, the link to the directive on that page is 404 compliant. Thank you. It's a pity the EU shuffles its pages around so much. There is a copy of the Directive at http://europ

Re: [gnu.org #214407] AutoReply concerning licensing question: Re: zwiki copyright status

2004-11-12 Thread Glenn Maynard via RT
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