First, and probably most important, I think that we should make the
required changes and I am not really a stickler for how it must read,
that seems to be a question for a "legal person" if needed.
Recap:
Jean:
This document is Copyright © 2014 by the LibreOffice Documentation
Team.
On 01/26/2014 07:15 AM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
Couple of points: 1) I don't believe the "LibreOffice Documentation
Team" is a legal entity, so I'm not sure that it can hold copyright
(at least not in the US). 2) In general, I believe TDF/LibreOffice
does not request copyright assignment, so copyright in contributions
to code, wiki pages, documentation, etc.. is all held by the
individual contributors, or the company/organization for which they
work, if it is a work-for-hire. Here's the text we use in the 'About'
box in LibreOffice: "This release was supplied by The Document
Foundation. Copyright (c) 2000 - 2014 LibreOffice contributors."
Thanks, --R
If you choose to be pedantic, I expect that "LibreOffice contributors"
is also not a legal entity, but it is probably closer to the truth as to
who owns the copyright :-)
I also do not know how important it is that the front cover and
meta-data directly reference a legal entity, especially if the truth of
the matter is that the individual contributors hold the copyright for
their own contributions. I also don't expect the individual contributors
to go after people that violate the copyright. I think that Sun (when
they owned OOo) had copyright assigned to them (or something like that)
so that they could enforce it.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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