[Koha-devel] Koha Foundation: Free Software Foundation

[Chris Cormack]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:11:47PM +0200, Paul POULAIN said:
> Chris Cormack a ?crit :
> >Irma Birchall wrote:
> 
> >Think of the FSF as a lawyer who you get to write an agreement for you. 
> >They wrote a license that thousands of Free Software projects around the 
> >world use to distribute their software.
> 
> Not exactly true : we use FSF this way.
> But we COULD give the copyright to FSF. FSF told everywhere that "they 
> can sue anyone stealing a GPL software, but only if THEY hold the 
> copyright".
> Unless I'm missing something, the @ is hold by katipo :
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # Copyright 2000-2002 Katipo Communications
> #
> # This file is part of Koha.
> #
> <snip>
> 
Not all of it is,

misc/translator/po/default_intranet_zh_TW.po:# Copyright 2004-2005 Ambrose Li
misc/translator/po/default_opac_pl_PL.po:# Copyright 2004 Benedykt P. Barszcz
C4/Amazon.pm:# Copyright 2004-2005 Joshua Ferraro (jmf at kados dot org)
misc/overduenotices.pl:# Copyright 2003 Skemotah Solutions
misc/Install.pm:# Contains parts Copyright 2003-4 MJ Ray

Etc, but yes the majority is. You are right, we could assign copyright to
the FSF .. I dont think anyone is proposing to do that though are they?

Chris
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