On 02/10/15 15:36, Zluty Sysel wrote: > So just to be sure, if the contributors waiver their ownership rights, > then the 3-clause BSD stands and if users do not acknowledge usage of > the software in their binary distributions it is up to the company to > choose whether to enforce or not that obligation, leaving us the > option of not enforcing it with certain customers.
You can't waive ownership rights; you have to assign or license them. But yes. > Do we really need additional paperwork? wouldn't it be enough to have > a license agreement that each contributor has to accept > (electronically, just by pressing "Accept" or something to that > effect). > In our particular case, and given the nature of our software, we > believe a waiver to the to the attribution clause in binary > distributions would be more than acceptable for our potential > contributors, so this could be the solution we're after. If I were you, I'd save the trouble and use the zlib license instead. Gerv _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
