Jan. a CLA protects from people changing their minds as well, and in some cases actually assets that the person assigning the copyright over is the actual owner.
from my point of view it should be weighed up as follows: cons of having people sign a CLA: - about 20 minutes if they are an individual - about 3 weeks if they work for a corporate (maybe shorter or longer), depending on how anal your firm's lawyers are. pros: - possible extra protection FWIW.. having a written agreement between you and your company saying it is OK for you to do this stuff is also important for the developer. On 05/07/2006, at 10:24 AM, Jan Claeys wrote: > > On wo, 2006-06-21 at 13:52 -0500, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: >> We don't; my conversations with the company lawyers seemed to >> indicate that you're implicitly assigning copyright simply by >> submitting code to an OSS project. Of course IANAL, but I'm going to >> trust what the ones we talked to say because they, well, are. > > Wikipedia[1] says: > > Under the U.S. Copyright Act, a transfer of ownership in > copyright must be memorialized in a writing signed by the > transferor. For that purpose, ownership in copyright includes > exclusive licenses of rights. Thus exclusive licenses, to be > effective, must be granted in a written instrument signed > by the > grantor. No special form of transfer or grant is required. A > simple document that identifies the work involved and the > rights > being granted is sufficient. > > That says something entirely different. ;-) > > > Also I think those company lawyers didn't really think about the > international aspect of "copyright law" (in many countries authors > retain their moral rights forever). > > > Of course, like you said, when people release their code under the BSD > license, there shouldn't be much of a problem when they keep the > copyright... > > > [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_copyright_law> > > -- > Jan Claeys > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
