Re: Proposal: end Gilligan's Island copyright notices in Fedora docs

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On 06/24/2011 08:11 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 00:58, David Nalley
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> If I had my druthers, I'd like to see something along the lines of:
>> 'Copyright © <YEAR> Fedora Project' if we used a copyright notice or
>> perhaps even better:
>> 'Copyright © <YEAR> Fedora Project Contributors'
> I spoke with Spot on this while at SELF.  Because Fedora Project isn't
> a legal entity it cannot hold a copyright.

IANAL

That is only a valid objection if the suggestion was (c) Fedora Project
but (c) Fedora Project contributors says something different.  It means
*individual* Fedora project contributors hold the copyright to their
contributions which is certainly possible and is the case here. 

Rahul
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