Hi Ton, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ton Roosendaal" <t...@blender.org> > Dalai's reply is excellent, hope you can follow this for now. > > For Blender we really should resolve this topic now indeed; there's a > strong (legal) lobby in the OS world to make projects use developer > agreements, whith good clarity about copryright origins of > contributions and an agreement by contributors to accept on the GPL > (or other) license.
Dalai's reply is great. However if you think the contributor agreement will be drawn up soon, I would rather wait for that. I would feel more comfortable if there was a formal agreement in place. > Another relevant topic is to clearly define in which cases (c) goes to > BF. There's sensitive development areas that can easily picked up by > legal lizards to start IP or patent violation investigations. This is > a reason why FSF advices to migrate rights to them. Blender has a > fortunate legal base in the EU, giving it a bit more stable grounds > for IP/patent attacks than in USA. My personal opinion is that a requirement for copyright assignment would hinder contributions. But maybe it can be decided on a case-by-case basis. > [...] > Proposal: I'll check on this during the next 2 weeks in more detail, > and come with a proposal for it. Will get at least feedback/ > endorsement from the current project admins (brecht, campbell, matt e, > martin p) on this too! We then can have the topic for public review > here. That sounds good! Please consider my proposals (below) for the format and location of the attribution. Cheers, Alex -- Alex Fraser Software Engineer The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing > On 21 Jun, 2011, at 4:52, Alex Fraser wrote: > > > [...] > > I propose that: > > > > 1. All future contributions be attributed in modified source files > > as "Copyright <year> <author or organistion>", or at the > > contributor's option, in another form that conveys the same > > information. > > > > 2. The same copyright information be collected in a place accessible > > from the GUI, either in the splash screen itself (perhaps in a tab) > > or on a web page linked to from the splash screen. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers