On 8/12/14 5:04 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > >> Of course, a sure fire approach would be to see if Berry would be >> willing to assign any copyright interest he might have in the code >> to The MacPorts Project. > That might be the case for US jurisdictions, but not for the EU. For > example, as a German citizen, I cannot assign my copyright – it will > always be mine. I can grant usage rights, but that's different. > > Of course other organizations (such as, e.g., the GNU project) do it > anyway – I'm just saying if we're going to open that can of worms, > we can either > (a) do it the full-blown way, employ a few lawyers across borders, > draft a document and have everybody submit that before > accepting patches. I think this would considerably slow down > our (already slow) processes. > (b) continue to ignore the issue as we have so far in the interest > of simplicity. > Obviously (a) would be the correct thing to do. Unfortunately, > "correct" costs time, and eats up more of the time we could use to > get stuff done that actually matters. > > So, if you care enough about the issue, feel free to revert the > change. Cc'ing jberry, because, if any, his rights are being > violated here. > Interesting.
Yes, I think conferring with Berry is the appropriate approach. If he doesn't mind then the issue is moot. Dave _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
