On Aug 9, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Brett Porter wrote: > An interesting read just popped up on twitter as I got this mail: > http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Copyright-assignment-Once-bitten-twice-shy-1049631.html > (points both for and against, including "I want to spend my spare time > coding, not doing paperwork" :) > > On 09/08/2010, at 9:53 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> It's a nice gesture but in practical terms what are you really going to do >> with your portion of the copyrighted code? > > In the context of that article, the answer was to not allow $BIGCO to use the > work in a way that wasn't intended (eg. non-free). >
I honestly don't see how that changes anything because it's the license that is going to prevent that. Doesn't have anything to do with copyright. There's no real practical way $BIGCO could get copyright assignment to change the license in order to subvert the existing license. > - Brett > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -- Buddha
