Peter K Chan wrote:
What exactly does removing one's copyright mean?
Does it mean that the copyright of the previous contribution is now assigned
to the JRuby project? In public domain? Simply unacknowledged in the source
code, but remain in force?
Also, who is "you" that is "removing" the copyright? Charles Nutter? Sun?
JRuby team?
Sorry to sound like a license police, but I just want to make sure tht we
are clear on all fronts.
"you" that is removing the copyrights is collectively "the jruby
community". The wheels are in motion to set up a foundation or an
organization or something, and I'm all set to sign over all my copyright
to that organization when it's established. My request for permission to
remove copyrights now is to hopefully reduce the amount of hassle later
to chase people down. Anyone that's paying attention and willing to
relenquish copyright can proactively do so to avoid us having to chase
folks down later.
Of course IANAL, so I've enlisted OSS experts at Sun to help us with
this process. Meanwhile, if there's nobody assigned to a given file
after removing someone's copyright, I'll probably put "(C) The JRuby
Community" for now, so it's sort of "collectively ours". When there's
officially an organization we'll just assign everything in bulk.
- Charlie
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