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

[Richard Fontana]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Christopher Antila wrote:
> I hadn't previously noticed the biggest issue here, which is the hypothetical 
> situation where another group wants to re-use Fedora Docs material. If, for 
> example, Ubuntu wanted to re-release the Musicians' Guide, they would try to 
> write a CC-BY-SA attribution statement, and find the following text on the 
> front page of the Guide:
> 
> "Christopher Antila
> Fedora Documentation Project
> crantila at feodraproject.org
> - -------------------------------------------------
> Legal Notice
> Copyright (c) 2011 Red Hat, Inc. and others"
> 
> To whom would Ubuntu attribute the document? Reading a little further into the 
> Legal Notice, we see this:
> 
> "The original authors of this document, and Red Hat, designate the Fedora 
> Project as the "Attribution Party" for purposes of CC-BY-SA."
> 
> For me, this clears up the question of attribution. But what of the Red Hat 
> copyright notice?

CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported requires the licensee-distributor to "keep
intact all copyright notices".


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