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Subject: Re: Documentation Licensing
From: Emma Jane Hogbin ####@####.####
Date: 12 Apr 2004 22:12:34 -0000
Message-Id: <20040412221052.GL4118@smeagol>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:09:41AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:58:51PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> > Interestingly, those legal advisors did "get" free software. They just
> > had a life-cycle view of copyrights -- they felt that if we maintained
> > a HOWTO then we should hold strict control over the contents. And when
> > we wished to cease maintaining the HOWTO we should assign the
> > copyright to the LDP.
> 
> I thought copyright assignment to the LDP was impossible, as the LDP 
> doesn't exist as any sort of legal entity. Is this correct?

Correct. Unless someone else knows explicitly otherwise...

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Emma Jane Hogbin
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