From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30863 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2002 22:21:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30850 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2002 22:21:05 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:21:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Bart Veer Cc: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Future code ownership Message-ID: <20021220172005.D19606@redhat.com> References: <20021219145229.A15709@redhat.com> <20021219222912.84A556165C@delenn.bartv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+xNpyl7Qekk2NvDX" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021219222912.84A556165C@delenn.bartv.net>; from bartv@ecoscentric.com on Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:29:12PM +0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 --+xNpyl7Qekk2NvDX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 1290 Hi - On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:29:12PM +0000, Bart Veer wrote: > [...] > Ideally Red Hat would assign to SPI as well, simplifying the whole > situation. But if they do not, copyright enforcement is still an awful > lot simpler when there only two copyright holders than when there are > hundreds. [...] I don't know for sure, but this belief sounds like an old wives' tale. Why is there an impression that an infringement suit can only proceed if *all* (vs. any) of the infringement victims want it to go ahead? > The assignment process for a corporate employee also involves a > disclaimer form that has to be signed by an officer of the company, as > per the FSF. [...] there would be clear documentation showing that the > maintainers had acted in good faith and had taken all reasonable > precautions. [...] Yes, I'm aware of that. My point was that you could accept a lower standard of paperwork (basically the submitter's affirmation, perhaps in the form of a proposed copyright notice for the new code). I have heard of no contrasting outcome for infringement disputes involving projects that use looser vs. tighter submission paperwork rules. In other words, such "all reasonable precautions", while likely sufficient, may not be necessary to protect yourselves. - FChE --+xNpyl7Qekk2NvDX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+A5eUVZbdDOm/ZT0RAkRYAJwOPf5A0VHDTSM8x7dcKxFQdFhnLACfTSxC kcfI1p+U72/bB/bWVXvpWBo= =mzMo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+xNpyl7Qekk2NvDX--