[wp-docs] Copyright and a new stub.

[Scott Merrill]

Podz wrote:
> I posted this to my User page:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Podz
> "I suggest that a new page be created Codex Copyright Holders.
> Contributors to Codex can then be formally acknowledged. Everything is 
> still GPL - just like the code - and there is no distinction between 
> then between coders and contributors. --Podz 15:59, 15 Sep 2005 (GMT) "

http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex_Copyright_Holders

> Would someone like to enlighten everyone as to what copyright terms will 
> be used, who will decide and whether or not there will be a page that 
> lists the name of those who have contributed to Codex ? Or do coders 
> have one rule and contributors another ? And simply saying "GPL" is NOT 
> an answer.

In the long term, I think the best solution is to make it clear that all 
contributions to the Codex -- and to the code in WordPress -- explicitly 
transfers copyright of said contribution to WordPress, Inc.  WPI should 
be the sole copyright keeper, so that a single entity can pursue violations.

The Free Software Foundation requests that Free Software developers 
transfer the copyright of their projects to the FSF, so that the FSF can 
bring its weight to bear in enforcement issues.

If the consensus is that transfer of copyright is undesirable, then 
everyone should "sign" the page I linked above.  And we'll have to go 
back through page histories to add the names of people who have moved on.

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