From ad1767302d0531fbd27eeeef62e27b36f23c4b48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:48:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more copyright files --- doc/Copyright/assign.changes.manual | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/Copyright/assign.future.manual | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/Copyright/disclaim.changes.manual | 62 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 317 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/Copyright/assign.changes.manual create mode 100644 doc/Copyright/assign.future.manual create mode 100644 doc/Copyright/disclaim.changes.manual diff --git a/doc/Copyright/assign.changes.manual b/doc/Copyright/assign.changes.manual new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..44569e5d97 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Copyright/assign.changes.manual @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +The way to assign copyright to the Foundation is to sign an assignment +contract. This is what legally makes the FSF the copyright holder so +that we can register the copyright on the new version. +I'm assuming that you wrote these changes yourself; +if other people wrote parts, we may need papers from them. + +If you are employed to do writing (even at a university), or have +made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns text +you write, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your +employer disclaiming rights to your changes. + +The disclaimer should be signed by a vice president or general manager +of the company. If you can't get at them, anyone else authorized to +license manuals produced there will do. Here is a sample wording: + + Digital Stimulation Corporation hereby disclaims all copyright + interest in the changes and enhancements made by Hugh Heffner to the + manual "The Seduction Manual", also including any future revisions + of these changes and enhancements. We do not consider them as a work + made for hire for us. + + , 1 April 1987 + Ty Coon, President of Vice, Digital Stimulation Corp. + +IMPORTANT: When you talk to your employer, *no matter what +instructions they have given you*, don't fail to show them the sample +disclaimer above, or a disclaimer with the details filled in for your +specific case. Companies are usually willing to sign a disclaimer +without any fuss. If you make your request less specific, you may +open Pandora's box and cause a long and unnecessary delay. + +Below is the assignment contract that we usually use. You would need +to print it out, sign it, and snail it to: + +Copyright Clerk +59 Temple Place, Suite 330 +Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + +Snail a copy of the employer's disclaimer as well. + +Please send me email about what you decide to do. If you have any +questions, or would like something to be changed, ask rms@ai.mit.edu via email. + ASSIGNMENT + + For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which I acknowledge, I, +NAME OF PERSON, hereby transfer to the Free Software Foundation, Inc. (the +"Foundation") my entire right, title, and interest (including all rights +under copyright) in my changes and enhancements to the manual "NAME OF +MANUAL", subject to the conditions below. These changes and enhancements +are herein called the "Work". The work hereby assigned shall also include +any future revisions of these changes and enhancements hereafter made by me. + + Upon thirty days' prior written notice, the Foundation agrees to +grant me non-exclusive rights to use the Work (i.e. my changes and +enhancements, not the manual which I enhanced) as I see fit; (and the +Foundation's rights shall otherwise continue unchanged). + + For the purposes of this contract, a work "based on the Work" means +any work that in whole or in part incorporates or is derived from all or +part of the Work. + + The Foundation promises that all distribution of the Work, or of any +work "based on the Work", that takes place under the control of the +Foundation or its assignees, shall be on terms that explicitly and +perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms +apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute +copies of the work to anyone on the same terms. These terms shall not +restrict which members of the public copies may be distributed to. These +terms shall not require a member of the public to pay any royalty to the +Foundation or to anyone else for any permitted use of the work they apply +to, or to communicate with the Foundation or its agents in any way either +when redistribution is performed or on any other occasion. + + The Foundation promises to give or send me, upon reasonable prior notice +and payment of a fee no more than twenty times the cost of the necessary +materials and postage, a copy of any or all of the works "based on the +Work" that it offers to the public or that it has offered within the +past six months, or that it distributed for the first time within the past +six months. My request shall detail whether I wish to receive all +such works or specific works. My choice of works to request may affect the +cost and therefore the fee. + + I hereby represent and warrant that I am the sole copyright holder for the +Work and that I have the right and power to enter into this contract. I +hereby indemnify and hold harmless the Foundation, its officers, employees, +and agents against any and all claims, actions or damages (including +attorney's reasonable fees) asserted by or paid to any party on account of a +breach or alleged breach of the foregoing warranty. I make no other express +or implied warranty (including without limitation, in this disclaimer of +warranty, any warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). + +Agreed: [signature] Date: + + +ACCEPTED: FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION - Thanks for contributing to the GNU project! + +Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director + +Please do not delete the control-l character before this line. +Please print this as a separate page. + +Please email a copy of the information on this page to +fsf-records@gnu.org, if you can, so that our clerk doesn't have +to type it in. Use your full name as the subject line. + +Otherwise, please write down the answers and snail this with +your assignment. + +[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?] + + +[What year were you born?] + + +[What is your email address?] + + +[Please write your snail address here, so we can snail a copy back to you.] + + + + + + +[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written +so far?] diff --git a/doc/Copyright/assign.future.manual b/doc/Copyright/assign.future.manual new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed6054033b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Copyright/assign.future.manual @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +The way to assign copyright to the Foundation is to sign an assignment +contract. This is what legally makes the FSF the copyright holder so +that we can register the copyright on the new version. +I'm assuming that you wrote these changes yourself; +if other people wrote parts, we may need papers from them. + +If you are employed to do writing (even at a university), or have +made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns text +you write, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your +employer disclaiming rights to your changes. + +The disclaimer should be signed by a vice president or general manager +of the company. If you can't get at them, anyone else authorized to +license manuals produced there will do. Here is a sample wording: + + Digital Stimulation Corporation hereby disclaims all copyright + interest in the changes and enhancements made by Hugh Heffner to the + manual "The Seduction Manual", including both those he has already + made and those he will make in the future. We do not consider them + as works made for hire for us. + + , 1 April 1987 + Ty Coon, President of Vice, Digital Stimulation Corp. + +IMPORTANT: When you talk to your employer, *no matter what +instructions they have given you*, don't fail to show them the sample +disclaimer above, or a disclaimer with the details filled in for your +specific case. Companies are usually willing to sign a disclaimer +without any fuss. If you make your request less specific, you may +open Pandora's box and cause a long and unnecessary delay. + +Below is the assignment contract that we usually use. You would need +to print it out, sign it, and snail it to: + +Copyright Clerk +Free Software Foundation +59 Temple Place, Suite 330 +Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + +Snail a copy of the employer's disclaimer as well. + +Please send me email about what you decide to do. If you have any +questions, or would like something to be changed, ask rms@ai.mit.edu via email. + ASSIGNMENT + + For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which I acknowledge, I, +NAME OF PERSON, hereby transfer to the Free Software Foundation, Inc. (the +"Foundation") my entire right, title, and interest (including all rights +under copyright) in my changes and enhancements to the manual "NAME OF +MANUAL", including those I have already made and those I shall make in the +future, subject to the conditions below. These changes and enhancements +are herein called the "Work". + + Upon thirty days' prior written notice, the Foundation agrees to +grant me non-exclusive rights to use the Work (i.e. my changes and +enhancements, not the manual which I enhanced) as I see fit; (and the +Foundation's rights shall otherwise continue unchanged). + + For the purposes of this contract, a work "based on the Work" means +any work that in whole or in part incorporates or is derived from all or +part of the Work. + + The Foundation promises that all distribution of the Work, or of any +work "based on the Work", that takes place under the control of the +Foundation or its assignees, shall be on terms that explicitly and +perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms +apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute +copies of the work to anyone on the same terms. These terms shall not +restrict which members of the public copies may be distributed to. These +terms shall not require a member of the public to pay any royalty to the +Foundation or to anyone else for any permitted use of the work they apply +to, or to communicate with the Foundation or its agents in any way either +when redistribution is performed or on any other occasion. + + The Foundation promises to give or send me, upon reasonable prior notice +and payment of a fee no more than twenty times the cost of the necessary +materials and postage, a copy of any or all of the works "based on the +Work" that it offers to the public or that it has offered within the +past six months, or that it distributed for the first time within the past +six months. My request shall detail whether I wish to receive all +such works or specific works. My choice of works to request may affect the +cost and therefore the fee. + + I hereby represent and warrant that I am the sole copyright holder for the +Work and that I have the right and power to enter into this contract. I +hereby indemnify and hold harmless the Foundation, its officers, employees, +and agents against any and all claims, actions or damages (including +attorney's reasonable fees) asserted by or paid to any party on account of a +breach or alleged breach of the foregoing warranty. I make no other express +or implied warranty (including without limitation, in this disclaimer of +warranty, any warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). + +Agreed: [signature] Date: + + +For the Free Software Foundation, + +ACCEPTED: FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION - Thanks for contributing to the GNU project! + +Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director + +Please do not delete the control-l character before this line. +Please print this as a separate page. + +Please email a copy of the information on this page to +fsf-records@gnu.org, if you can, so that our clerk doesn't have +to type it in. Use your full name as the subject line. + +Otherwise, please write down the answers and snail this with +your assignment. + +[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?] + + +[What year were you born?] + + +[What is your email address?] + + +[Please write your snail address here, so we can snail a copy back to you.] + + + + + + +[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written +so far?] diff --git a/doc/Copyright/disclaim.changes.manual b/doc/Copyright/disclaim.changes.manual new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6afddc7cda --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Copyright/disclaim.changes.manual @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +I'd like to ask you to sign a disclaimer for your changes, +thus putting them in the public domain. (For small to medium changes +such as this, that is just as good for us as assigning copyright.) +I'm assuming that you wrote these changes yourself; +if other people wrote parts, we may need papers from them. + + I, , hereby disclaim all copyright interest in my + changes and enhancements to the manual . + + I affirm that I have no other intellectual property interest that + would undermine this release. I represent that these changes and + enhancements are my own and not a copy of someone else's work. + + + +*Don't forget to include the date.* +Spell out the month name--don't use a number for the month. Dates +using a number for the month are ambiguous; 2/8/95 means one thing in +the US and another in Europe. + +If your job includes writing manuals (even at a university), or have +made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns manuals +you write, then we also need a signed disclaimer from your employer or +school. + +This disclaimer should be signed by a vice president or general +manager of the company. If you can't get at them, anyone else +authorized to license a manual produced there will do. Here is a +sample wording: + + Digital Stimulation Corporation hereby disclaims all copyright + interest in the changes and enhancements made by Hugh Heffner to the + manual "The Seduction Manual". We do not consider them as a work + made for hire for us. + + Digital Stimulation Corporation affirms that it has no other + intellectual property interest that would undermine this release. + + , 1 April 1987 + Ty Coon, President of Vice, Digital Stimulation Corp. + +If your employer says they do have an intellectual property claim that +could conflict with releasing your changes, then please put me in +touch with a suitable representative of the company, so that we can +negotiate what to do about it. + +IMPORTANT: When you talk to your employer, *no matter what +instructions they have given you*, don't fail to show them the sample +disclaimer above, or a disclaimer with the details filled in for your +specific case. Companies are usually willing to sign a disclaimer +without any fuss. If you make your request less specific, you may +open Pandora's box and cause a long and unnecessary delay. + +Please snail the signed disclaimers to: + +Attn: Disclaimer Clerk +Free Software Foundation +59 Temple Place, Suite 330 +Boston, MA 02111-1307 +USA + +Please print your email address on the printed disclaimer. -- 2.30.2