Re: Fixing copyright notices on gnome.org websites
Alexandre Franke <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Josh Triplett <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless the individual contributors working on the site have actually > legally assigned copyright to the GNOME Foundation, those contributors > likely retain their own individual copyrights. (And I don't think we'd > want to require such an assignment.) That's a really good point. > It doesn't seem worthwhile to attempt to include a pile of individual > copyright notices on every page, but "© The GNOME Foundation" doesn't > seem quite accurate either. Perhaps it'd make sense to just drop it > entirely? Those pages ace licensed under CC By. Dropping entirely the copyright notice would make it impossible to properly attribute the work when used under that license. However, I have since realized that the current notices say "The GNOME Project" and not "the GNOME Foundation". The latter is a clearly defined entity and leads to the assignment issues you mentionned. The former is a name for an informal collective, and I think that solves the issue you raised. Does that look good to you? -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list