Re: Copyright assignment policy

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:24 +0200, ash contact bg wrote:
> Dear foundation members,
> 
> What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected copyright
> assignment?
> 
> I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome
> translation team.
> 
> Up till now, the copyrights have been assigned to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> I have personally contacted the individual contributors who gave me their
> permission (informal) to change the copyright assignments in the po-files for
> those translators that had retained copyright and assign that to FSF.
> 
> I have acted so up till now in private conversations.

IANALTTL (I am not a lawyer, talk to Luis), but my understanding
is that copyright assignment requires signing a piece of paper to
be valid.  I don't think private email exchanges cut it, legally.

--
Shaun