On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 21:42 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > for legal reasons we now have to ask everyone that attaches a patch for > > Clutter to our Bugzilla to waive the copyright for the patch itself -- > > effectively placing the patch under public domain. > > > > the full copyright waiver is available at: > > > > http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/waiver.html > [snip] > > Will the Clutter license be changing to public domain too?
obviously not. > I don't > believe a license (LGPL at the moment) can be enforced if there is no > copyright holder, and probably not if large parts of the product have no > copyright holder. the patch, in order to be integrated, must be placed under the public domain; once we integrate it in the repository it effectively becomes part of Clutter, hence it falls under its licensing terms. other than that, IANAL -- but the legal team that came up with this option are so I tend to trust their recommendations on legal matters. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, Senior Engineer | [email protected] Intel Open Source Technology Center | http://oss.intel.com -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
