On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 13:20, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Dear Gnome members, > > I am a long time GNU/Linux user and lover. My projects involve for example > http://www.pgadmin.org, which is based on wxWindows. > > For information, I am enquiring about the advantages of assigning copyright to > a Foundation. The advantages of creating a Foundation are obvious! > > I read on http://www.wxwindows.org/sf/index.htm that: > > "Other examples of projects requiring copyright assignment include Python, > OpenOffice, GNOME and all Free Software Foundation projects, such as GNU > Enterprise and GCC." > That's not actually true. GNOME doesn't require copyright assignment, contributors keep the copyright on their code. I'm not even sure if the mechanism exists :-) > 1) Could you point out to me any legal document whereby a contributor donates > the ownership of his work to the Foundation. > > 2) Is such a transfer of ownership always required in the case of contribution > to the Gnome Project? > > 3) Do you ask the contributor to bear all risks in case of transfer? > > 4) Where can I find the list of the Foundation members? http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.html should have them, but doesn't. For now, http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/voters.html is probably the best place to look. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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