Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:04:48 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@windriver.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 chapters in bad need of an overhaul Message-ID: <20010822170448.A74627@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010822145350.C42448@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:53:50PM %2B0100 References: <20010821150223.R1174@windriver.com> <20010822054653.B4D0D3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010821233454.Q14209@windriver.com> <20010822145350.C42448@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton said on Aug 22, 2001 at 14:53:50: > In re this (and our other copyright discussions) I think we've been a > bit confused. > > I'm now not sure that we need copyright assignment to the Foundation. > What we do need is license clarification, so that all the content is > under the same license. The copyright on individual chunks of text can > be held by the original authors, as it already is. I personally think copyright assignment is a good idea, because people may contribute large chunks of text to existing text, and it's difficult to keep track of who has copyright to what, should such an issue crop up. For example, two of the handbook sections http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html were started before I became interested, but in present form, the major parts were written by me (going by word count). That is not clear to a reader of the handbook. Now I don't care at all about the copyright of these particular writings of mine. But if some people do care about copyrights to handbook contributions, it seems to me it would be hard to disentangle different peoples' contributions. If nobody cares, I don't see why not just ask everyone to assign copyrights to the foundation. These things matter only in the case of ownership disputes, but in such cases, doesn't it make it easier if one entity holds the entire copyright? Just my 0.02 euro R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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