Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
Peter K Chan wrote:
What exactly does removing one's copyright mean?
Does it mean that the copyright of the previous contribution is now
assigned
to the JRuby project? In public domain? Simply unacknowledged in the
source
code, but remain in force?
Also, who is "you" that is "removing" the copyright? Charles Nutter?
Sun?
JRuby team?
Sorry to sound like a license police, but I just want to make sure
tht we
are clear on all fronts.
"you" that is removing the copyrights is collectively "the jruby
community". The wheels are in motion to set up a foundation or an
organization or something, and I'm all set to sign over all my
copyright to that organization when it's established. My request for
permission to remove copyrights now is to hopefully reduce the amount
of hassle later to chase people down. Anyone that's paying attention
and willing to relenquish copyright can proactively do so to avoid us
having to chase folks down later.
Once again - not to be a troublemaker - but if you remove your claims
for copyright on something without at the same time giving that
copyright to some other entity, you effectively put the work in the
public domain. That might be fine, but it will be kinda weird too,
especially when we put some community copyright statement on it.
--
Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.blogspot.com)
JRuby Core Developer
Developer, ThoughtWorks Studios (http://studios.thoughtworks.com)
Practical JRuby on Rails (http://apress.com/book/view/9781590598818)
"Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined.
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