On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:20:23AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 06/29/2011 10:02 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:24:36PM -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Pamela Chestek <pchestek(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>> I thought the consensus was to have a copyright notice that listed the
>>> owner as "Fedora Project contributors"?
>> I thought it was as well. I'm no attorney (and don't play one on IRC
>> or email), but I don't see a pressing reason *not* to have a copyright
>> notice.
> I don't see a pressing reason not to have one if the one Pam suggested
> is acceptable.
Precisely.. Legalese should be avoided as much as possible. Can we take
this uniform, consistent approach and apply it to other places like the
installer, website, media artwork etc instead of doing it for the docs?
As a replacement specifically for "Red Hat, Inc. and others" where the
latter happens to be used today, in Fedora contexts? Sure (though I
assume that is off-topic for this list). Indeed I have already
suggested it for the website in the thread you started on the
advisory-board list.
It shouldn't necessarily replace *other* forms of copyright notices
that exist in the Fedora universe. The specific issue is the
Gilligan's Island copyright notice, nothing else.
--
Richard E. Fontana
Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel
Red Hat, Inc.