From: | "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting) | ||
Date: | Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:08:11 | ||
Message-Id: | 20070304160737.5e219532@c1358217.kevquinn.com | ||
In Reply to: | Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting) by Danny van Dyk |
1 | I note that FSF-Europe uses what it calls a "Fiduciary Licence |
2 | Agreement" to gain the ability to prosecute license violations for |
3 | software whose copyright is distributed amongst many owners. |
4 | |
5 | Discussion here: |
6 | http://www.fsf-europe.org/projects/fla/fla.html |
7 | |
8 | and the boilerplate for FTF's agreement in PDF here: |
9 | |
10 | http://www.fsf-europe.org/projects/fla/FLA.en.pdf |
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12 | This may be more appropriate than a straight copyright assingment as |
13 | used by FSF (US). |
14 | |
15 | I guess this is an issue for the trustees, rather than the council, but |
16 | (b)cc'ed both for comment. |
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19 | Kevin F. Quinn |
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