Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-08 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 04/01/2012 07:20, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:56:48PM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : >> >> We could contact every current contributor, and ask them if they are OK to: >> - grant copyright of their future contributions to SPI; >> - grant copyright of their past contr

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
David Prévot > If they refuse to grant copyright of their future contributions to SPI, > or if they don't respond, the first action would be to remove their > commit access, so starting at 2012, all the new content of the > website will be copyright SPI. That seems a bad situation in two ways: 1

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
David Prévot writes: > I don't know what would be the best approach for future contributors > (i.e. I don't know if we'll need to ask them explicitly for their > consent, or if a page on our website would be enough), but for current > and past contributors, we need their consent. > > We could cont

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:56:48PM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : > > We could contact every current contributor, and ask them if they are OK to: > - grant copyright of their future contributions to SPI; > - grant copyright of their past contributions to SPI. > … > > Unless someone objects on th

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:56:48PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Once the copyright granted to SPI, it will be a lot easier to address > the licensing issue, but I would prefer not to take care of everything > at once (given past experience, trying to do everything at once is > doomed to fail): this

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-03 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Since this year began with the website being free of the old charset mess, I wonder if we could continue, and try to address as much as we can of the copyright/license mess, starting with the copyright. Talking on IRC with Rhonda and others, we came to the conclusion that even if we'll have t