[ros-kernel] Code Copyright Issues

[Jason Filby]

It has already been decided that such a person may make their
identity 
known to the core developers to prevent any problems.

Cheers
Jason

Steven Edwards wrote:

>--- Vizzini <vizzini at plasmic.com> wrote:
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>>In that vein, please *do* let me know (privately) of anything that
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>>know of that violates a copyright.  I will be developing a strategy
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>>scrubbing up our codebase in the not-so-distant future, and I'd
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>>be armed with a list of trouble spots.
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>On that note when we clean the codebase of trouble spots I would
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>to propose that we limit access to CVS by anonymous developers. If a
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>developer wishes to remain anonymous then they should transfer
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>copyright of the code to the ReactOS Foundation and the Foundation
can
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>sign a Non-discloser form.
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>I am sorry but we cannot risk a legal battle because you want to
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>totaly hidden. If you do wish to develop and keep in the shadows
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>you must work with us by either filig your work with the US
Copyright
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>Office or turning said work over to the foundation and disclosing to
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>the Foundation who you are.
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>http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/copyright.act.chapt3.html#17usc302(c)
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>"(c) Anonymous works, pseudonymous works, and works made for hire. 
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>In the case of an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work
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>for hire, the copyright endures for a term of seventy-five years
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>the year of its first publication, or a term of one hundred years
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>the year of its creation, whichever expires first. If, before the
end
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>of such term, the identity of one or more of the authors of an
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>anonymous or pseudonymous work is revealed in the records of a
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>registration made for that work under subsections (a) or (d) of
section
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>408 [17 USCS Sect. 408], or in the records provided by this
subsection,
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>the copyright in the work endures for the term specified by
subsection
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>(a) or (b), based on the life of the author or authors whose
identity
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>has been revealed. Any person having an interest in the copyright in
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>anonymous or pseudonymous work may at any time record, in records to
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>maintained by the Copyright Office for that purpose, a statement
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>identifying one or more authors of the work; the statement shall
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>identify the person filing it, the nature of that person's interest,
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>the source of the information recorded, and the particular work
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>affected, and shall comply in form and content with requirements
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>the Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation. "
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>Thanks
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>Steven
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