It's not that we're transferring copyright ownership to FIG, as FIG
isn't a legal entity. It's that by working on it under the FIG
umbrella, it's clearer that contributors are individually offering
whatever they're doing under MIT, as opposed to something else or not at
all. There's no transfer of ownership, just a clarity about the license
used by the individual contributors collectively.
--Larry Garfield
On 08/26/2016 08:47 AM, Keith Casey wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 1:11:04 PM UTC-5, Larry Garfield wrote:
It's not that FIG needs to own the code per se; strictly speaking
there is no legal entity called FIG, so it cannot own copyright on
anything.
Then you're assigning copyright to an entity that have standing or
process for determining who can represent it where and how? Sounds
like that's a bigger problem to solve first.
However, bear in mind that under copyright law you own any
non-trivial work you produce immediately upon doing so, and no one
else has any legal right to copy it, much less use it, without
your explicit consent (modulo fair use).
Adding a license - any license - governs the terms of contribution,
usage, etc, which the MIT (or BSD or Apache) covers as is.
The "entity" only has to own the copyright if there's a need to
relicense it or transfer ownership later and you don't want to contact
all the contributors. Are you planning to transfer ownership?
* I ran a GPL->BSD relicense a few years back after forking a project:
http://web2project.net/2011/01/web2project-license-change/ and worked
through all the details with extensive legal and technical advise.
keith
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