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

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