MIT copyrights in X.org source base...

[Jim Gettys]

The point was that as "successor in interest" and owner of a copyright,
can update their name on a copyright.

The only person who can ever authorize the change of a copyright notice
is the copyright owner.

A copyright from 1987 like that would almost certainly have originally
been an MIT copyright, assigned to the X Consortium, to TOG, to X.org.
That is what I was illustrating.

Similarly, all Digital and Compaq copyrights are now owned by HP, and
can be similarly consolidated.

Nothing can be touched without the copyright owner's permission.
                                       - Jim


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:12 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:36:25AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:31:08PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > > > Here's an example result of what I propose:
> > > > 
> > > > ----------------
> > > > Copyright 1987, 1998, The X.Org Foundation.
> > 
> > X.Org did not exist in 1987.
> 
> If it was authored in 1987, and copyright is contemporarily assigned to
> XOF, then that's not an issue.
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child