Thanks Kevin! Copyright is always owned by the code author unless explicitly assigned to someone else, or unless the code is a "work for hire". My contract with JBoss states explicitly that work I do on Hibernate is not "for hire" and I retain all copyright on Hibernate. Any code that anyone else writes and contributes to Hibernate is of course owned by them (unless they have some kind of contract with =their= employer).
However, with the LGPL, it doesn't especially matter who owns copyright. However, this arrangement does mean that only the code authors (and never JBG) could ever take Hibernate and =change= the license. It goes w/o saying that we will never change the Hibernate license to anything more (eg. take it closed source). > Congrats, > > I'm the more open source projects that pick up some form of sponsorship > the better. For better or worst the JBoss group gets lots of attention so > more exposure for hibernate. I was a bit disappointed that the jboss group > website doesn't mention the announcement. > > One question I have is ... who will own the copyright on the source? > > -k. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
