Hi! l?rdag 9. juli 2005, 12:39, skrev Johannes Stezenbach: > 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 server admin (whois is out of date, convergence doesn't own 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). Ack! > > 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). Well, if you look at the dvb-apps directory, there is a lot of files there without copyright statements, which AFAIK means that the author disallows everything! > > 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. Yup :) Kenneth
