On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:11:17PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > There's "formalism" and then there's the GNU mess. All I was suggesting > (Btw - > IANAL) is that there be some sort of generic form to assign copyright > ownership > to TPF that people can just put their name on (and possibly sign) then > email/fax/snailman/teleport to TPF. It doesn't even have to be compulsory. Ya know, the FSF folks do actually know a lot about this. If nothing else, some of them ARE lawyers and can give us advice on what's a good idea and what isn't. One fellow at OSCON was fairly chomping at the bit wanting to help with Perl's licensing and copyright issues. Shame I can't remember his name. (It wasn't Brad Khun, who, incidentally, has mellowed). -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ This is what you get for staying up all night drinking VODKA and SALAD DRESSING! -- http://www.angryflower.com/8to6.gifThread Previous | Thread Next