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Re: Debian website's copyright and license suggestions?



On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:28:47 +0200 Bas Zoetekouw wrote:

> Hi Francesco!
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> > A less difficult solution is avoiding copyright assignements and
> > simply asking for a license change: each copyright holder should be
> > tracked, contacted and asked to agree with the relicensing.
> 
> I'm afraid that this will turn out to be infeasable.  Lots and lots of
> people have contributed to the webpages.  To make it even worse, a
> lots of translators used to work though general cvs accounts (like
> "dutch" or "french"), making it even harder to find out who did what.

This is unfortunate, but it will bite regardless of which solution is
chosen (copyright assignment or agreement to relicense).
As I said, both solutions require getting in touch with each current
copyright holder...

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