Hi Camilo, thanks for your answer, I guess you are right, the copyright header would be an implicit a copyright assignment.
I'm not in favour about giving rights or not, I'm just investigating how it works. It was a surprise, for me, to know how FSF manage copyright. Any yorba confirmation? Xavi 2012/4/23 Camilo Polymeris <[email protected]> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Xavi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > it helps a bit but no clear yet... who owns, the copyright, of code I > gave? > > Yorba or even giving it it's going to mine? So yorba is made by several > > copyrights? > > Hello Xavier, > > first, I don't work for yorba and I am not a lawyer, so take this with > a grain of salt, but: the yorba coding guidelines[1] ask you to put a > file header declaring copyright to the yorba foundation in all source > files you submit, which, I guess could be understood as an implicit > copyright assignment. On the other hand, I have contributed a little > code and they haven't asked me to sign either a formal contributor > license agreement (CLA) or to explicitely assign copyright to Yorba, > like e.g. the FSF does. > Again, IANAL, but I understand that even if there was a CLA you'd > still remain the owner of the copyright, but would be agreeing to a > worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, etc... license to distribute > your code. > > Regards, > Camilo > > [1] http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/yorba/wiki/CodingConventions > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
