Glen Turner wrote:
The only thing that is clear is that the developer needs a high level of trust in the entity requesting the copyright assignment. After SCO I'm not sure that any of Ray Noorda's current or previous activities engenders the necessary level of trust for me.
Exactly. I just happen not to trust anyone who declares they are going to accept my copyright and relicense it under a proprietary license. If you wanna do that, fine. On the other hand, if an open source project request that you assign your copyright to some entity and guarentees that they will not dual license your code under a proprietary license you should at least consider it. It would be a lot better if they guarenteed (as the FSF does) that they will only use their ownership of the copyright to forward Free Software.
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