Erik Trimble <[email protected]> wrote: > Frankly, this is one of the biggest arguments in favor of assigning > copyright to some single entity for all contributions to a project. It's > what allows multi-licensing of an entire codebase. IHNSHO, anyone > running a large OpenSource project should /always/ insist on copyright > assignment. *Who* that copyright is assigned to is another matter > entirely, but it should always happen. Otherwise, you're stuck. > > The FSF does it, the Apache Foundation, Mozilla project, and > OpenSolaris, not to mention the OpenJDK project.
I cannot speak for Apache and Mozilla or OpenJDK, but the FSF uses a contract template that is in conflict with the European Copyright law and causes the contract to become void. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
