I don't think you will get a lot of people to contribute if you ask them to surrender ownership not to the community but to a private company... I'm not an expert in licencing matters, but I don't think MySQL does it that way. I guess contributions are only made to the community editions... Not sure though.
Josselin 2010/7/5 Xavier Antoviaque <[email protected]> > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 11:29 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > > It's not about the license, it's about ownership. If we own the code > > and assets, we can chose to allow someone to use it under the terms of > > another license (like MySQL for example). > > > > To do this, we need to get copyright assignments from all contributors > > to the project, though - otherwise we won't be able to relicense those > > contributions. > > Exactly. And it can help prevent some licensing issues sometimes too - > for example, when a new version of the AGPL is released, we can switch > the whole codebase to this license without having to contact every > single contributor since the beginning of the project. > > Xavier. > > _______________________________________________ > Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] > > Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ > List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ > Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ > Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ > IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis >
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