Alot of the contributions so far have been pretty meger in usefulness and the bulk is just general banter and suggestion that ae never covered by any ownership rights anyway. The contributions made by Grob, Retired Geek and others that were indeed valuable were made under full knowlegde of the given statement. Lately a few more volunteers have approach me and the ones who have taken on a job in the project have been made well aware of this statement. I have yet to encounter a single person who pulled out of the project because of it.

Grob is the only one who contributed prior to the creation of final version of this statement but we have agreed that the F12 project has full rights to using his contributions. Additionally, any contributions made on the forum are by definition part of the public domain and any and all ownership rights will have been lost as result anyway.

As such all is fair.

We must also remember that ownership rights is widely misunderstood by the general public (what else is new) it has only any meaning when dealing with economic exploitation of the object covered by ownership right. No law system in the world forbids any person to legally copy any product as long as it is for his own personal use. So this statement will not affect 99% of the F12 enthousiasts in any way. It only impacts on the persons seeking to economically exploit the F12 and the F12 class. And I feel strongly that the persons doing the bulk of the work should also be the ones to have first rights to this. Currently the pool of active volunteers is very small indeed.

Wouter