The new Contributor Terms contain the equivalent of a joint copyright
assignment to the OSMF. That makes this recent article by Michael Meeks
on copyright assignment in free software very relevant:
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html
Of course, not all of the pros and
One issue is that copyright assignment does not work in europe,
the fsfe has worked on some of these issues.
http://www.fsfe.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html
see also :
http://lwn.net/Articles/359013/
This is how coding/etc. for money works in Europe too -- you retain your
moral rights, but your
Hi,
Gervase Markham wrote:
The new Contributor Terms contain the equivalent of a joint copyright
assignment to the OSMF.
You have said that multiple times already, but I - and, it seems, others
- don't view it that way. You do not assign copyright to OSMF; you only
grant them a license to
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Gervase Markham wrote:
The new Contributor Terms contain the equivalent of a joint copyright
assignment to the OSMF.
You have said that multiple times already, but I - and, it seems, others
- don't view it that way.
Hi,
Anthony wrote:
Where is the actual legal phrasing of this license to sublicense?
In the paragraph just below the actual legal phrasing of the copyright
assignment!
Bye
Frederik
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