Proposal: end Gilligan's Island copyright notices in Fedora docs

[Eric "Sparks" Christensen]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:46, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2011 08:11 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 00:58, David Nalley
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>> If I had my druthers, I'd like to see something along the lines of:
>>> 'Copyright © <YEAR> Fedora Project' if we used a copyright notice or
>>> perhaps even better:
>>> 'Copyright © <YEAR> Fedora Project Contributors'
>> I spoke with Spot on this while at SELF.  Because Fedora Project isn't
>> a legal entity it cannot hold a copyright.
>
> IANAL
>
> That is only a valid objection if the suggestion was (c) Fedora Project
> but (c) Fedora Project contributors says something different.  It means
> *individual* Fedora project contributors hold the copyright to their
> contributions which is certainly possible and is the case here.

Correct.  But if we do that then we should just list *who* holds the copyrights.