On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Sam Spilsbury <[email protected]> wrote: > As part of a purely administrative detail, I just read this [1] > article by the FSFE on copyright assignment and how it should be > handled. (... reassigning copyright)
I applaud you for reading up on it and caring enough to write about it. I wish more people did that. However, I do not reassign my copyright. This is one point where I do not agree with the FSF. If you want to know a good reason NOT to reassign it, take a look at X-Chat. I may not contribute much any more, but I take my copyright serious, as should everyone. The history of Compiz and licenses isn't nearly solid and mature enough for me to believe it's sane to expect developers to trust a council with all their copyright, specially when our organization isn't even close to mature. Besides, if the code is licensed under one of either "MIT" or "GPL X or newer", it's not going to be a big deal anyway. And if somebody chose GPL, they probably have a reason. All in all, Compiz is not a project where I believe reassigning copyright is the way to go. Very few projects are, even though most developers care far too little about the consequence of letting a foundation or a commercial entity own what should've been their copyrighted works. - Kristian _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.compiz-fusion.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
