On 20. okt. 2010 20:10, Anders Logg wrote: > David Ham skrev 2010-10-20 19.54: >> >>>> How should we go about making the change? Is it enough if everyone >>>> just >>>> responds to this list? Or do we need something more formal like David >>>> Ham suggests? >>> >>> Can you reiterate what he suggested. >> >> I can reiterate what he suggested ;). >> >> In essence, if you write code as part of your job, your employer owns >> the copyright, not you. The Fluidity project handles this by requiring a >> copyright licensing letter from every individual contributor and from >> the copyright department at their institution. The Institution letter >> says: >> >> CONSENT TO COPYRIGHT LICENSING UNDER THE LGPL >> >> On behalf of name of <commercialisation organisation> I hereby give my >> consent to the redistribution and/or modification of <name of >> university> contributions to the Fluidity/Imperial College Ocean Model >> project under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as >> published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the >> License, or (at each distributor's option) any later version. >> >> The individual letters say essentially the same thing with the obvious >> changes. >> >> To be really safe in terms of knowing that you absolutely, legally do >> have the right to distribute under a given licence, I think you need to >> do something like that. However you might also take the position that as >> long as the individual contributors are happy, the universities will be >> too. Imperial is very mercenary so I wouldn't take that for granted but >> your institutions might be more enlightened. >> >> Regards, > > I think that would work fine. The main trouble would be to hunt down > everyone that has ever contributed and make them sign the paper, but > the sooner we try the greater chance we have of a success. > > I suggest we try this. I can put together a form and put it somewhere > on the website for download. Then everyone will be asked to get it > signed and return it to me. (Anyone else wants to collect the > documents, let me know.) Johannes can assist me in keeping track of > which signatures are missing. When we have a large enough fraction of > signatures (so we think we can safely ignore the missing signatures), > then we can update all the licenses. > > Sounds good? >
Yes. -- Marie _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
