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Clay Lenhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There may be a misunderstanding about copyrights in this project. I do
> not claim to be an expert, but I am writing this to raise a flag to the
> maintainers who may want to hire legal advice.
>
> The people who contribute source code hold the copyright. I understand that
> there is a "works for hire" clause which may indicate that the project holds
> the copyright for contributed works,
I have never heard this applied to an Open Source project. I would assume this
would require a liberal interpretation of "works for hire"
> however it appears to require a written agreement between the parties (project
> and contributor), which of course was not done in my case (and probably
> everyone else too).
Yes... contributors own the copyright unless it is officially transferred.
> In my case, any software I contributed, I hold the copyright, but I release it
> under the version of the hsqldb license at the time I uploaded the files.
Then you need to put your copyright on the file.
> If you do not like this arrangement, then the easy answer is to not use any
> code I uploaded.
...
> And lastly, I have investigated more about licenses and decided not to
> contribute to BSD style projects. So I will no longer contribute to hsqldb.
Then good luck working with the Java community. :) There is a LOT of BSD code
here :)
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