On Friday 30 May 2008 21:30, Jaime Villate wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this, I am pretty sure, is incorrect.
>> There is no legal entity "The Maxima Project" so it cannot hold any
>> copyrights.
>
> You're absolutely right. Notice that in the footer of the Webpages we
> are currently making the same mistake:
>
> (c) 2002?2008 Maxima CAS development team.
For the webpages, it's better than nothing. We should consult a lawyer before
treating it as a mistake and trying to find a way to correct it.
It seems that we should refer to some non-profit organization. For example,
every GNU project refers to the FSF in copyright notes.
> I've just committed to the CVS a complete ChangeLog file for the English
> version of the manual. There are actually not that many parties
> involved; what makes it complicated is that different contributors have
> appear at different types. Based on the CVS ChangeLog, I would suggest
> the following copyright:
>
> Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, W. Schelter
> Copyright (c) 2002, J. Amundson, W. Jenker, D. Stanger, R. Toy
> ?Copyright (c) 2003, J. Amundson, D. Billinghurst, D. Stanger, R. Toy
> Copyright (c) 2004, J. Amundson, D. Billinghurst, R. Dodier, D. Stanger,
> V. Toth, R. Toy, V.V. Zhytnikov
> Copyright (c) 2005, J. Amundson, D. Billinghurst, R. Dodier, M.R.
> Riotorto, D. Stanger, V. Toth, R. Toy, B. Willis, V.V. Zhytnikov
> Copyright (c) 2006, J.B. Abreu, J. Amundson, D. Billinghurst, R. Dodier,
> M.R.Riotorto, D. Stanger, V. Toth, R. Toy, V. van Nek, J. Villate,
> A. Vodopivec, B. Willis, V.V. Zhytnikov
> Copyright (c) 2007, J.B. Abreu, J. Amundson, D. Billinghurst, R. Dodier,
> D. Gildea, M.R.Riotorto, D. Stanger, V. Toth, R. Toy, V. van Nek,
> J. Villate, A. Vodopivec, B. Willis, V.V. Zhytnikov
> Copyright (c) 2008, J.B. Abreu, J. Amundson, D. Billinghurst, R. Dodier,
> A. Eder, D. Gildea, M.R.Riotorto, D. Stanger, V. Toth, R. Toy,
> V. van Nek, J. Villate, A. Vodopivec, B. Willis, V.V. Zhytnikov
>
> what do you think?
As far as I know, most of the core documentation dates to pre-Schelter time,
so it's not fair to write that the User Manual was created in 2000--2008.
Such long list should be in the "Acknowledgements" section, but not in the
copyright note.
> The next question will be: should we keep the "GPL v.2 or later", or
> should we already use "GPL v.3 or later"?
For the documentation, FDL should be used.
[...]
I should say that the current documentation is far from perfect and there are
some legal issues, so publishing it as soon as possible seems to be a bad
idea.
--
Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru>
http://beshenov.ru/
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