On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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,
true > but it is probably closer to the truth as to who > owns the copyright :-) When I read the info box, I see "LibreOffice contributors" as a group of people, not a single/formal entity (e.g. "LibreOffice Contributors"), similar to "the Open Document Format" vs. "an open document format". > 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. Good point. I think it would be fine to put something like "LibreOffice Documentation Team, et al." on the front cover (with a longer explanation inside), but because copyright is held by individuals, an explicit implication of copyright such as "(c) 2014 LibreOffice Documentation Team" or "(c) 2014 TDF" seems misleading. Best, --R -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
