On Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 1:03:09 PM UTC-5, Chas Emerick wrote:
> What happens to a codebase that is subject to a CA that is > forked elsewhere? Are future contributions subject to that CA? I assume not, but IANAL. (Blanket IANAL) No. > Does the "Copyright (c) Rich Hickey" banner that's > supposed to be on all files stay there permanently? Pretty sure, but IANAL. The existing code retains its copyright and must be labeled as such. New code should be labeled appropriately. > If all of the nontrivial contributors to the project decide they > want to change the license later, do we also need to obtain Rich's > assent? This has nothing to do with Rich or the contributors. The project is available as open source under a license and you may only modify and distribute the code under the terms of the license. In this case, EPL requires that derivative code be released under EPL afaik. > (Parenthetically, it strikes me as very strange for a project to have a > copyright assignment to an individual that hasn't lodged any commits, at > least insofar as the project gone "solo". It's interesting that I don't > have that intuition if the assignee is an org like Apache or whatever, a > discrepancy that I'll have to think on.) > Afaik, this is not at all strange and is (legally) the exact same thing. Note that the copyright assignment in the Clojure Contributor Agreement is a *joint* copyright ownership. While rights are granted to Rich, they are also fully retained by the original author, which may imply that a "reboot" could include your original work and make derivatives of it without being pursuant to whatever the contrib version is doing. That would not automatically to other authors changes, but presumably they could make the same determination. Again, this is not legal advice, and this may not be correct - please read the CA and pursue better advice to make that judgement. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
