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

[Eric "Sparks" Christensen]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:56, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2011 08:21 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:46, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I am not sure if that is a legal requirement.   If it is and if it is
> not easy to list all the contributors,  then is dropping the copyright
> info and just listing the license of the document feasible?   Richard
> Fontana can clarify that

Correct.  In the US I believe that you have to opt out of your
copyright (i.e. everything is copyrighted by default) but that is
different in other countries.  Just licensing the work may be
acceptable but we need a better way to do our attribution and we need
to provide guidance to those that may want to use our work for their
own work.

--Eric