Re: Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 09 ian 12, 09:56:56, David Prévot wrote: > > > > How would I forbid anyone from complying with the Social Contract? > > Sorry I wasn't clear, I was referring to a previous part of my message: Ugh, I snipped too much, let me try again: On Du, 08 ian 12, 10:09:43, David Prévot wrote: > Le

Re: Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-09 Thread David Prévot
[ not responding to the bug report since you only responded to debian-www@l.d.o, anyway, I don't add anything new to this already crowded BR anyway ;-) ] Hi Anrdei, Le 09/01/2012 04:21, Andrei Popescu a écrit : > I'll try to assist as much > as possible for the Romanian translations, even t

Re: Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hi David, Thanks for working on this difficult issue. I'll try to assist as much as possible for the Romanian translations, even though most of the translations are from before I joined. About something you wrote: On Du, 08 ian 12, 10:09:43, David Prévot wrote: > > If we don't ask people, we'

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

Re: 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