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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

Karsten Behrmann a écrit :
> Hi all!
> We recently removed all the copyright junk from the top of smgl.install.
> The question came up if that was legally completely right and if
> those people should not be mentioned somewhere.
> So (also in absence of a well-kept ChangeLog) there is no other
> place anyone could see who worked on the ISO.
>
> So I whipped up a /CONTRIB file for the ISO to put all credits in.
> It currently resides at //sgl/cauldron/proj/proj2/iso/skeleton/CONTRIB
> I'm still wondering how to sort the people... maybe alphabetically would
> be best...

The installer (currently the single file smgl.install) is a standalone 
software (but so far distributed only as part of the ISO). It might be 
released as such (ie standalone) in the future. That's why I think it's 
better to keep copyright notice along with name of the contributor in 
the file itself. This does not prevent us from maintaining a CONTRIB 
file as well...

The next question I raised is whether "Source Mage GNU/Linux" can be 
considered as a legal entity to which copyright can be assigned. AFAIK, 
"Source Mage GNU/Linux" is not registered as a company, non profit 
organisation, association or something like that.

I'd like those questions to be answered for the sake of clarity.

But of course, IANAL! :-)

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru