One issue is that copyright assignment does not work in europe, the fsfe has worked on some of these issues. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html
see also : http://lwn.net/Articles/359013/ >>>This is how coding/etc. for money works in Europe too -- you retain your >>>moral rights, but your employer gets _all_ usage rights, which typically >>>includes taking those right away from you so that while you can still claim >>>authorship of the code, you cannot use it in any way. Merry Christmas! mike On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net> wrote: > The new Contributor Terms contain the equivalent of a joint copyright > assignment to the OSMF. That makes this recent article by Michael Meeks > on copyright assignment in free software very relevant: > http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html > > Of course, not all of the pros and cons he raises are relevant to data > rather than software. But the following sentence struck me: > > "It appears (to me) that choosing a license that can be upgraded and > bug-fixed in-flight by a responsible steward or proxy substantially > removes the requirement of assignment for re-licensing." > > I would recommend reading the whole article. > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
