Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 13:19 +0200, Martin Paljak a écrit : > In legal terms, *copyright* on OpenSC belongs to the authors who have > contributed code, and/or marked it down in source code. > The fact that other, unknown persons (not established in source code > as copyright owners) have code in OpenSC source tree is also known, > as there is no legal body (foundation, like Gnome or GNU or similar) > that would govern licensing in OpenSC.
This suits me very well.
This means that OpenSC project belongs to the group of people who
contributed source code. Each contributor, even with one line of code,
is legally an owner. This is called "joint-ownership" by law.
> Thus everybody are free to use the source code on the same terms,
> which is mostly LGPL (there are exceptions, like the Tokend code
> wihich is not LGPL as it is derived from Apple source code etc etc)
Sure.
Another consequence is that, to some extent, if the community is asking
for more freedom to contribute, we shall find a way to collaborate.
For example, if you are the owner of a 1% of a car would like to use it,
you may request free access to the car. Free software is no difference.
Of course, I don't mean everyone should have commit access to the
repository, but at least every recognized developer should be able to:
* Be listed as member on the GIThub main project with Martin and
Ludovic.
* Have commit access to the main repository. There are public
discussions before commit.
* Decide in common about important issue, like release process and
schedule.
Understand, this is a right for democracy where we discuss about
important issues. Basically, this is as it was before moving to GIT even
if we keep GIT.
Martin, will you agree that also?
Kind regards,
Jean-Michel
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Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu
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