Gianluca Turconi wrote: > I've already suggested that if the copyright assignment is > considered a too heavy burden, it should be asked to the contributor > at least a statement that clearly affirms his/her absolute copyright > rights for the contribution (nobody else can claim nothing about the > contribution) and includes a indemnity clause ("clausola di manleva" > in my language) in the unlucky case what he/she stated it isn't true > and somebody else has valid legal rights for the contribution. > > A "no signature involved, whatsoever" approach is just too risky, IMO. > Hi Gianluca,
I respect your opinion - alas, I have a different one. For your specific example, if someone submits code to LibO, stating in her mail "I license this under LGPLv3+ / MPL", and that later turns out to be false pretense, that gives you about as much leverage against the contributor as if she signs extra documents (at least for all practical matters. Sure, you can include huge damages in that legal document - but would have to extract it, from a potential independent contributor, in the first place). Sueing your contributor, in any way, is most likely the lesser of your worries in such cases... ;) > Of course, distributors *can* risk if they want. > And they do. Large portions of the typical Linux stack are developed in this, or comparable, ways. Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***