Re: Thoughts about gnuplot license and copyrights

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Ethan A Merritt wrote:

>On Saturday 21 January 2006 05:41 pm, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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>>- the FSF has a strong policy regarding copyrights : it asks for signed
>>paper for each important contributor
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>The current front page for gnuplot document lists 23 contributors
>in addition to the two original copyright holders.
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>>What do you conclude ?
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>I conclude that you would need on the order of 25 signatures to
>fully satisfy the FSF, if that is your goal.
>But that specific criterion would only be triggered if you were
>attempting to transfer copyright to the FSF, which is rather extreme.
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It's not my goal, and I completely agree with the "extreme" adjective !
I just wanted to confirm what Daniel J Sebald explained about the
necessity to have some legal proof if we want to do something to the
current license, such as a written letter from Thomas Williams.