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Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20080304164459.GG2793@techhouse.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">The issue with the Debian website copyright is rather different and is
much more complicated, because contacting all past contributors to that
website, getting some sort of legal document signed with them, and
convincing all current and future contributors to do the same would be a
huge task.</pre>
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Jimmy,<br>
<br>
There is another way to go about it. Where copyrights are not
explicitly stated, the Debian project can decide to uniformly make
clear its own copyright upon its own web site, and make a <i>public
notice </i>of its intention to do so, along with a call for past
contributors to oppose and ask for their contribution to be removed
before this takes place.<br>
<br>
This can be done in finite time. This is only a clarification of a
copyright that always existed. Anyone, past, present, or future, who
asserts that a never-formally-stated copyright of a portion of the
project's web site exists that is not owned by the project is just
trying to obstruct the project.<br>
<br>
There are individual documents such as the Debian Policy Manual that
are copyrighted by their developers, but it's a really short list of
people.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Bruce<br>
<br>
<br>
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