Re: subsets of licenses and copyright holders (was Re: I think the AL needs a rewrite)

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

> Bradley M . Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >I don't think this is completely out the question, either.  I was actually
> >planning on writing an RFC that proposes that all contributions to the core
> >be copyright assigned to Larry. 

Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Well if that becomes a requirement I will have to stop contributing from
> work at least, as I have not the mental energy required to extract such a
> thing from the corporate entity.

That is a problem, indeed.  It's a hard issue, and not easily solved.

We, as developers (I think) really *want* to give Larry full control over
Perl, even with our code.  Yet legally, that's darn hard to do with
copyright assignment.  *Sigh*

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