Hi, -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Von: Bernhard Dippold <bernh...@familie-dippold.at>
> > So if I understand it right, the difference is a legal one with probably > minor consequences in code usage: > > While with ICLA the contributer keeps the copyright on his own (and thus > needs personal legal assistance or an additional contract in case of > copyright infringement claims) the OCA / JCA allows the entity sharing > the copyright to behave as copyright owner in legal conflicts. Maybe Apache and TDF members might have a differnt view on the effects, as Apache members are more used to US copyright law, while TDF members are more used to the European way. E.g. for me as a German citizen it does not matter at all if a company wants a copyright assignment from me or not - I just cannot transfer "copyright" (due to german law). The only thing I can do is to grant permission to use (e.g. to relicense) my contributions. I'm not arguing that any of the OCA / JCA / ICLA is good or bad - just trying to tell that we might have very differnt views on the issue. And while being different, all those views might be correct at the same time. regards, André -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
