----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com> > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 17:28 +0100, Roberto Resoli wrote: > > Copyright Assignment is nor bad nor good, it's a compromise > > I do not see assignment in -any- way as a compromise; but as an > un-necessary extreme.
Well, let's get back to the real issue in this thread...(more below) > > i am still waiting to see any reply also to Andrea's proposals > > in another thread [1] > > Oh - I guess I should reply there. > > > I agree with Andrea, and I think that all this JCA stuff need a more > > pragmatic approach > > Honestly; the amount of doom mongering in this thread is staggering. > Suddenly we somehow 'discovered' that all FLOSS licenses are > un-enforceable, jurisdictionless, that no-one has really contributed > anything, in any binding way to any eclectically owned FLOSS project[1], > and that only mad people would ship that software :-) I quite agree - that's a rather foundation-less claim that it is unenforceable, especially given all the big guns behind existing projects using such a model. Given how much the FSF/FSFII/etc and consults the community when developing the licenses an issue with unenforceability from such a nature would have arisen already; but it simply has not. So let's get back to the real issue - the _only_ reason for copyright assignment is to help the organizers of LibreOffice (TDF) with keeping the license current - e.g. moving from LGPLv3 to LGPLv4, etc. If the TDF SC and LibreOffice developers are not concerned about that issue (and from what I have seen in this thread the guidance is already to license as LGPLv3+ for new contributions and there is nothing we, TDF/etc, can do about Sun/Oracle owned code), then there is no reason for copyright assignment, pure and simple. Any kind of other fear mongering to get copyright assignment put in place is unjustified. However, all that doesn't mean it might not be good for TDF to offer developers the choice of copyright assignment without requiring it; something that would also be good to offer the estates of deceased developers when those situations arrive. But that is all - an option should the developer with to exercise it. Ben -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***