Re: Abiword copyright issue

Jordi,

You may or may not know that I now "own" the AbiWord
trademarks and copyrights originally held by
SourceGear.

It is true that I don't own all the copyrights, though
I probably own a majority of them. Since the
SourceGear work was done as "work for hire", I now own
Paul's, Jeff's, Bob's, Eric's, ... claims of
copyright.

It is not legally wrong (or "plain wrong"...) to say
that I, amongst other people, maintain copyrights on
the AbiWord source. If it said, "Copyright Jordi Mas
and others" it would still be legally correct and
factually correct.

I am fine with changing the copyright message to the
following:

"Copyright (c) 1998-2004, the AbiSource community"

I do, however, solely own the AbiWord trademarks. The
"About" dialog and the webpage should mention that.

"AbiSource, AbiSuite, and AbiWord are trademarks of
Dom Lachowicz. All other product names, company names,
or logos cited herein are property of their respective
owners."

Dom

--- Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have seen that the recent versions of STABLE and
> HEAD have this note in the
> about dialog box (even Win32):
>
> Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Dom Lachowicz, and others
>
> I think that this is just plain wrong. The copyright
> of every piece of code
> belongs to the person who wrote it. This is legally
> wrong. Also, I think that
> is not fear of the amount of people that has worked
> on this project. I will be
> strongly in favour of changing this to:
>
> Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Abiword community
>
> Or something similar. I also think that this should
> be changed in our homepage
> also.

                
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Received on Sun Jun 20 20:42:39 2004