Re: Copyright assignment policy

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

[CC'ing gnome-i18n]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:24 +0200, ash contact bg wrote:
> 
> 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.

Don't do that.  That adds an unnecessary barrier to entry, and you are
essentially taking their contribution away from them.

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