On Jul 14, 2011 2:10 PM, "Petr Kovar" <pkovar(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi all,
> From: "Eric Christensen" <eric(a)christensenplace.us>
(...)
> * Copyright changes for all guides (Sparks, 23:43:48)
> * LINK:
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2011-June/013474.html
> (Sparks, 23:44:04)
> * ACTION: Sparks to file a bug to continue the discussion on whether
> or not the copyright holder can come from a Publican brand (Sparks,
> 23:51:54)
As a follow-up to the copyright discussion we had during the IRC meeting:
my point was that some [previous] authors of Fedora docs were not
necessarily
Fedora Contributors at time of authorship (like e.g. Eric
Foster-Johnson
who wrote the original RPM Guide, AFAIK).
IIRC, if the original work is licensed so we can make a derivative work,
like we have in the case of the RPM Guide, the person making the derivative
owns the copyright for their work and provides attribution back to the
source.
Maybe adding "and others" at the end of the copyright notice would solve
the
problem in such cases?
This leads us to another question: How do we define a Fedora Contributor?
As
someone who has signed up for a Fedora Account, or someone who has
submitted
a patch, content and/or other form of contribution to Fedora Project
but
has
not necessarily signed up for an account, or... ?
To be a member of the Docs Project, and by extension have commit access, you
must have signed the contributor agreement and be contributing your work to
the Deepest repositories which makes you a contributor.
Yes, these are multiple questions actually. :-)
I agree that it's best to consult a lawyer (again) on this matter.
Definitely need Spot or Fontana or... to take a look at this.
--Eric
Cheers,
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Petr Kovar
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