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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: koffice policies and copyright policy
From:       Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann () zagge ! de>
Date:       2010-09-04 3:06:58
Message-ID: 201009040506.58542.t.zachmann () zagge ! de
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On Friday 03 September 2010 09:12:34 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A small ping on the subject of the copyright policy [1].
> 
> So far, in our discussion we have agreed on mostly everything, except the
> copyright removal, there are two positions:
> 
> 1) That you can remove the copyright if the person's contribution are gone
> from the file (after discussion with the author)
> 2) That you never know, and that it is safer not remove the copyright
> without the author agreement, or consulting a lawyer
> 
> Right now, four people have expressed their position, one person in favor
> of 1), and three of 2).
> 
> So at this stage of discussions, there is a majority in favor of 2), if
> there is no further discussion, 2) will be adopted as the koffice policy.
> So if you agree or disagree, now is the best time.

I'm also more in favor of position 2. However I think it should be possible to 
remove copyright. And in fact it is as it is defined in the policy. There is 
still the possibility to remove a copyright when you have good arguments and 
those are agreed on by the developer or on the mailing list it can be removed.  

> [1] http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Policies/Copyright

I like this version and I think we should use that until KDE has its own 
policy.

Thanks to Cyrille for setting up this.

Thorsten
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