On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:50AM +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee wrote:
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Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Credit loss in Fedora translation files
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 09:55:22 -0400
From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com>
To: Runa Bhattacharjee <runab(a)fedoraproject.org>
CC: legal(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
On 05/10/2011 01:12 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee wrote:
>
> if there could be any implications of legal nature at this point due to
> the loss of credits, and
>From a strictly legal standpoint, the answer is no, because the
copyright notice is not required, nor does the absence of the notice mean
that the work is suddenly no longer under copyright (if copyright applies to
the work at all).
OTOH some jurisdiction consider removing authorship notice as illegal. E.g.
Czech Author Act (121/2000 Coll.) states so in section 44. I do not know
Greek law where Transifex resides but I think it's quite common per EU
directives.
-- Petr