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From: Patrice D. <per...@fr...> - 2008-01-16 10:32:46
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:49:48AM +0100, Klaus Rechert wrote: > Hi, > > sorry but i don't see the point here. > > A lot of very huge OS projects, like linux-kernel, live very well without > assigning copyrights to a single entity. It is not an issue as long as you don't intend to pursue copyright infringements. > On the practical side, i think it is almost impossible to change this now for > ming (find all authors and get them to sign a licence). You not only have to > find people which are attributed in the license header, you need to find all > people with significant contribution (in copyright terms) to a single file. Indeed. > Also having new contributers to sign a license is not very helpful finding > help out there.... It helps stopping the copyright fragmentation (if it is a pursued goal). -- Pat |