On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:32:22 -0400 Kenneth Lerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am I correct that an undivided interest means that any of the joint > authors can license the work to others without the permission of the > other authors? Yes. From the reading I did, I believe that the author who exercises this option owes two duties to his coauthors: 1. He can't cause the work to be devalued. AND 2. Any profit must be split in equal shares with all the other coauthors. I don't think either of these duties are part of copyright law, but arise from common law principles of "equity" for which I have no citation. > If that is correct, any of the joint contributors can release users > from the requirements of GPL. We clearly do NOT want that. Well, you and I don't want that, so that's two of us... > For the > future, we should somehow bind contributors with a written agreement > preventing that from happening. Perhaps some sort of statement > requiring acceptance as part of the commit process. These are often called Contributor License Agreements: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/cla.xml Thanks, Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
