On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:49 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > 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. > > [David] Right, I was asking myself the same thing actually. Xav any > idea ?
MySQL does it that way - 100% of the contributed code's ownership has been assigned to the corporation. In other cases it is assigned to a non-profit entity - but in both cases the problem for the contributors remains the same, ie there is a risk for the contributor to find out one day that the legal entity to which he assigned the code changed its orientation. Here is a good article on the subject - we may or may not agree with the conclusions, but it does a good job of listing the advantages and inconvenients of each approach: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html 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
