I am not a Lawyer. I do not legally represent the Sakai Foundation in any way. I am just a teacher, volunteer developer, and former lots-of-things. This text is only to stimulate discussion and to share my opinions on these matters.
This exchange was with John Norman – it hits on some subtle issues in contribution agreements and copyright. I have some additional commentary beyond the E-Mail exchange below.
Hi Chuck
Where I am hazy is whether that distribution under the ECL 2.0 license requires Sakai Foundation to express copyright Sakai Foundation copyright in the whole work and if that in turn requires copyright statements to be removed from contributions.
There is no *legal* requirement that we *must* remove author copyright as long as those copyrights are compatible with the ECL.