On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:14:32PM -0400, Pamela Chestek wrote: > The U.S. statute defines the elements of a copyright notice, which are the © > symbol, the word "Copyright" or the abbreviation "Copr.," the year of first > publication of the work, and (the critical question here) "the name of the > owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation by which the name can be > recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner." So > keeping in mind that from a legal perspective it really doesn't matter much if > we have a copyright notice, and that there is latitude in how one identifies > the owner, I would vote for "Fedora Project Contributors." I think that's > accurate for the purposes of the statutory requirements and, since the actual > names are available on a contributions page, it is more than enough to identify > the authors for those people who use the copyright notice as a lead for finding > the actual copyright owners. I'm okay with that. > As pointed out by others, for those using content under the CC-BY-SA license we > should state clearly somewhere how we would like the attribution. This is already done in the default Fedora docs CC BY-SA notice by designating the Fedora Project as the "Attribution Party" (a term used in CC BY-SA 3.0). I suppose we could be clearer about what that actually means. > I also agree with Richard that we should carve out the copyright in the logo > from any license grant. Yes, the original intent of the current notice language was to indicate that but I think it can be made clearer. The entire legal notice actually needs to be revisited because of the FPCA too (I assume contributors to docs are typically in cla-done or whatever it's called). The idea of Red Hat being "the licensor of this document" may have made sense under the old Fedora CLA regime but I think it does not make sense under the FPCA (because the inbound content license is now CC BY-SA by default). - RF -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
