Hi Kenneth, Kenneth Aafl?y wrote: > LinuxTV is a community of a lot of people, where people come and go! > > The people supporting LinuxTV is assumed to be part of the group, > but how does one specify this legaly in copyright statements? > > The LinuxTV group should be in controll of everything in the > LinuxTV CVS server, but it this the case today? There is no corporate body (association, club, society, company) which could be called "LinuxTV group". The server is paid by a sponsor, and the linuxtv.org domain is registered to the server admin (whois is out of date, convergence doesn't own it anymore). > What would the burdon of making all content in the LinuxTV CVS, > copyrighted to the LinuxTV project be? For what purpose? Currently copyright stays with the authors. The only group I know of which handles this different is the FSF, because the copyright transfer enables them to take legal action by themselves (only the copyright holder can sue on copyright violations). > IANAL, please respond if you are, as I want to know who you are! IANAL too, but getting a written statement from all patch authors who submitted something during the last couple of years to transfer copyright to whoever doesn't sound very practical to me. Johannes
