Re: Fixing copyright notices on gnome.org websites

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Josh Triplett <josh joshtriplett org> wrote:
> Unless the individual contributors working on the site have actually
> legally assigned copyright to the GNOME Foundation, those contributors
> likely retain their own individual copyrights.  (And I don't think we'd
> want to require such an assignment.)

That's a really good point.

> It doesn't seem worthwhile to attempt to include a pile of individual
> copyright notices on every page, but "© The GNOME Foundation" doesn't
> seem quite accurate either.  Perhaps it'd make sense to just drop it
> entirely?

Those pages ace licensed under CC By. Dropping entirely the copyright
notice would make it impossible to properly attribute the work when
used under that license.

However, I have since realized that the current notices say "The GNOME
Project" and not "the GNOME Foundation". The latter is a clearly
defined entity and leads to the assignment issues you mentionned. The
former is a name for an informal collective, and I think that solves
the issue you raised.

Does that look good to you?

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director