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From: todd rme <toddrme2178@gmail.com> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:28 AM, BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:From: Cor Nouws <oolst@nouenoff.nl> To: discuss@documentfoundation.org> Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 2:22:03 AMSubject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments & the Document BRM wrote (29-10-10 00:41)BRM wrote:The Linux Kernel guys don't require it; KDE E.v. does. Both
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havetheir pros and cons.Hi, just a very small correction here - KDE e.V. does not require it, it is optional to sign their FLA (a trait shared among other> >> FLOSS projects, e.g. the Python Foundation acts similarly).Thank you for the correction. I thought they did from what I had reada >whileback. Yet another method to accomplish the same goal.What would be the use of people giving the option to share a CA or not.Just >the fact that, in case for e.g. a licence update, you only have to contact x%of the contributors?It certainly reduces the burden. Otherwise you have to contact 100% of contributors, not all of which may be easy to find if at all.I don't mean to be morbid, but they may not even be alive.
Which when we discover, may be good to offer the estate - the ability to hand-off copyright assignment so that: i) the estate can completely close out ii) the estate won't have to worry about being questioned about it in the future iii) the estate may not be aware of it to start with and may get closed out without anything happening; in which case local law determines what happens (yet another headache) Iv) the estate or successor-in-interest may not understand the question IANAL, $0.02 Ben -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***