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Re: GNATS copyright? |
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:06:01 -0700 (MST) |
Headers in most GNATS files say that the files are copyrighted by FSF.
However this is not true, the copyright has not been transferred to FSF.
I should fix the copyright lines in the files,
Yes, definitely.
The authors can be found from
ChangeLogs, but I don't know whether they hold the copyright personally
or whether the copyright belongs to their employers (this applies
especially to Cygnus).
If they worked for Cygnus, then Cygnus (now Red Hat) has the
copyright. This was an official Cygnus project. So you do not need
to ask the authors who worked for Cygnus.
For the other authors, you do need to ask them. How many authors is
that?
It could be worth ask tiemann@redhat.com whether they intended to give
the copyright to the FSF. If yes, they might assign it now.
Please ask him first, and hold off contacting the other authors
until you see his answer. If he does not respond right away,
please ask him again once a week with a cc to me, saying
"Whatever the answer may be, we need to know it, so we can figure
out what is correct for us to do."
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