On 2013-10-21 10:23:41 -0400 (-0400), Richard Fontana wrote: [...]
One of the suggestions in the thread made by someone seemed to be to make some automated mapping between an author and an affiliated organization, but this will not necessarily yield a correct identification of the copyright holder (that is true, for example, in a number of cases involving Red Hat employees).
That was me pontificating on some possible ways to extract the requested information, mostly pointing out that it would be complicated to implement and still not entirely accurate. One of my concerns there was with regard to contributors with concurrent multiple affiliations... but out of curiosity what's the copyright holder identification concern specific to Red Hat employees? Are their contributions not a work for hire (so that they're counted as independent contributors for the sake of copyright assignment)? -- Jeremy Stanley