On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:09:53 +0100, Phil Payne wrote: > >It could be very interesting indeed.
Quite. >What happens if one member of the open source community takes IP from somewhere and >places it >into the open source project without informing the others? Usually/typically some form of license will be given - even if "the giver" doesn't have the right to give it. If something is provided under no specific license, I think questions need to be asked. >Classicly anyone using that IP - even without knowing it even WAS someone else's IP - >could be >pursued. But how reasonable is it to expect everyone involved to follow an audit >trail for >every modification ever proposed? Not reasonable at all. Which makes it reasonable that a contributor should always provide some sort a "license" for his/her contribution. A traceback. >Making each contributor prove that their contributions were >untrammeled would throttle the open source movement. Yep. Therefore the proof/evidence/license/etc. needs to be presented "at the door". regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.
