Hi Wols, On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 13:21 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > But that's the point of using something like git :-)
True. > Provided we have a policy that says "the project licence is X, all > contributions must be compatible" I don't see that it matters WHAT > licence contributors use. If the project policy is LGPL3+ We are trying to be LGPLv3+/MPL dual at a minimum; being more liberally licensed is (for me) no real problem license-wise. > It's tricky, but imho the rule should be if you make a major > contribution to a file then you add your copyright notice. In general, > patches, fixes, etc shouldn't. And possibly we add a line that says > "copyright assorted contributors - see git history for details". Right. > BUT. As far as my contributions so far are concerned I don't even know > if they are significant enough to be worthy of copyright! If I was asked > to assign a licence I would say BSD but even that's overkill for what I > think they're worth :-) Ah - well, we value them - for sure ! > If contributors want to use BSD etc why should we care? And if third > parties want to extract said BSD code, why should we make their life > easy (or hard :-) ? If they want the code, it's their problem :-) Sure - but the problem is - foreach (license-used) - which in the BSD case tends to include the (C) and author line - we need to whack that block of text into the license file / documentation. Check the number of duplicate BSD license statements in the iPhone help/documentation as an example. That is a royal PITA to maintain; and it gives undue credit to whomever writes a two line changes under a bespoke BSD license, where little-to-none is given to those doing thousands of changes under the project license :-) Of course, perhaps I mis-understood something; but at least for a small chunk of file, I'd really like to keep our licensing situation simple (if possible). Regards, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice