Copyright (Was: Re: New panel in trunk)

[Mickaël Graf]

*IANAL* but AFAIK "The Xfce development team" isn't a legal entity in any country. I'm afraid it's hazardous to put the copyrights on it.
Time to create a Xfce foundation for keeping the copyrights?

Cheers
Mickael


On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:17:25PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Daichi Kawahata schreef:
> ...
> > 
> > Modified in repository, by the way, which should I use for the
> > copyright notification in the initial comments?
> > 
> >   a) Copyright (C) 2005 Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org>.
> >   b) Copyright (C) 2005 Jasper Huijsmans.
> >   c) Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Jasper Huijsmans.
> >   d) Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Jasper Huijsmans and The Xfce development team.
> >   e) Copyright (C) 2002-2005 The Xfce development team.
> > 
> 
> e) is fine with me. In fact, I've been wondering if I should do that for 
> my source files as well.
> 
>    Copyright <year> The Xfce development team
> 
>    Authors:
>      ...
> 
> I have no idea what the legal status of such a line would be though. Can 
> the Xfce development team be official copyright holder?
> 
> 	Jasper
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