Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Disclaimers aside, who has the copyrights in those cases? > > Digium currently holds copyrights and/or is allowed to relicense the > full asterisk codebase as is currently distributed in the asterisk > tarballs on ftp.asterisk.org and also all the code in the asterisk CVS > on cvs.digium.org (any better definition?) . > Just to be clear, the perpetual agreement doesn't force a transfer of copyright; The author gets to keep the copyright, and can do whatever he likes with the code. The shorter disclaimer puts the copyright into the public domain.
The perpetual agreement gives "the owner" two main rights. Firstly paragraph 1 allows the code, and all future Asterisk-related code, written by that contributor to be closed by "the owner". Secondly, paragraphs 2 and 5(a) force the contributor to report all future changes and/or enhancements to save "the owner" the hassle of having to scour future forks looking for code that they might be interested in folding into their proprietary release. The second disclaimer (the short one) simply dumps all of your changes and enhancements into the public domain for anyone to use in a proprietary product. Of course, the only people who would know about this would be the signer and the company to which the document was sent. The short disclaimer is sufficiently woolly to allow for all future changes to a fork to be folded back into the binary release, although it doesn't include an obligation to report all such changes. Once signed, neither agreement has an exit clause or time limit, so neither of them can be cancelled. Maybe that is legal in Alabama (or Delaware), but I wouldn't really want to have to travel there to find out. -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
