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Re: License of Info Manuals



At Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:07:42 +0200,
Romain FRANCOISE <romain@orebokech.com> wrote:
 
> Yes, but contributors aren't mentioned at all in the documentation, so I
> think it is assumed that they implicitly assign their copyright to the
> copyright holder mentioned in the file when they send a patch.  If the
> documentation contained a list of authors, it would be different.  But
> IANAL etc...

  As for me I didn't even note a copyright notice was there.  The
Japan (and probably the US) laws don't deem people implicitly assigns
his copyright or abandan it in such a case (althought I don't know
contributors actual intentions...), so Tsuchiya-san's approach is the
best, I think.
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