Re: Another job for the Gnome Foundation ?

[kelly poverty bloomington in us]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:10:29 -0700 (PDT), Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net> said:

>Why complexity?  If code is stored in the Gnome CVS tree and says
>"Copyright Russell Steinthal", if Miguel goes in and modifies the
>code, does it become "Copyright Russell Steinthal, Miguel de Icaza"?
>Add in fifty more changes by different developers, does it become
>fifty specific names?  At a certain point, was it fifty individuals
>who wrote the code, or collectively the Gnome foundation?  If that's
>where it ends up, why not start there?

The only way the Gnome Foundation will come to own the code is if
either (a) someone assigns it to them or (b) someone employed by the
Gnome Foundation makes substantially transformative changes to the
code such that the Gnome Foundation becomes the lawful author of some
version.  

The presence of a copyright notice in a file does not establish actual
copyright, although erroneous copyright notices do create a defense.

Kelly