trentb...@gmail.com writes: > Of course, if you add the wrong declaration, that just becomes > confusing -- e.g. if you put "© 2009 Alice" based on VCS metadata, > but Alice was just committing a patch she received as a .diff from > Bob.
In the process of the exercise of cleaning up copyright notices on a large code base, I can say that these are often useful because the person in the notice disclaims authorship and points to who did the work. It's a lot more convenient than trolling through VCS records or ChangeLogs for the workflow I'm using, at least. > > http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html > > AIUI these CLAs are intended as an alternative to copyright > assignment. That's right. What they are is a license from the copyright holder to the project to sublicense (change the license). They're not necessary if you insist on the BSD or MIT license for all contributions. (The MIT license explicitly permits sublicensing IIRC.) _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
