On 15 Jan 2012, at 16:22, Mark Struberg wrote: >> "Copyright 2011, Red Hat, Inc. and/or its >> affiliates, and individual contributors by the @authors tag". > > > To clarify this as well. This doesn't mean a 'shared' ownership! Usually this > wording in an OSS license is used to express that both the projects hosting > and managing partner (Red Hat) AS WELL as the original author have _full_ > rights on this work (the authors of course only for the part they did). > > Basically this says: Red Hat gets all rights to use this software, but the > original author _remains_ all this rights as well! > > Otherwise Red Hat could not do _anything_ without first asking _all_ > contributors (on the very class) for allowance first ;) > > So if Pete, Stuart and Jason originally wrote it and agreed to contribute > this code, then all is well. > > Of course, having the ok from Red Hat as well would make things easier - > because then we would not need to scan all the files history to check if only > iCLA signees have touched it.
Actually, it doesn't. Our CLA simply requires contributors to allow us to license under the LGPL, GPL or ASL only, Red Hat does not get shared copyright.
