On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Josh Triplett wrote: > In that case, would you consider the clause Free if it said "when > the author of such alterations submits them for inclusion in the > work"? That would make such assignment entirely voluntary.
Possibly. I'm not entirely enthused about clauses like this because they really don't have any reason to be in a license at all. Companies like this should do due dilligence and request copyright assignment or specific licensing before incorporating a patch rather than relying on their license to do it for them. [Ie, do what the FSF does for contributions to GNU projects...] If possible, I'd strongly suggest that someone suggest to companies and licensors with similar terms follow the lead of the FSF. It's the intelligent way to avoid a SCO like case that actually has merits. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator. -- Jeff Dege, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
