Andrew Brown wrote:
But then I'm a writer. I do deals with my copyrights every day and I still can't understand how a _joint_ copyright assignment can be unacceptable.
If I give you a joint copyright over my work, you can do anything you want with it, including things I might not like. If I am the sole copyright owner, I can give you a license that says exactly which things you are allowed to do, and which things you aren't.
Let's take an example from the writing profession. Suppose you write a good book. Would you like credit for it? Would you like people who distribute it to do so under an open license? Or perhaps you want a portion of the revenue. Whatever it might be, you would give people a license so they only use your work in the way you like. A JCA would not give you that control.
Now an example from programming. Perhaps I want my add-ons to be GPL only. Or perhaps I'm cool with the SISSL/LGPL used by OOo, but would not want it to become BSD. You wouldn't be able to assert any of those conditions upon the recipient of the JCA.
Cheers, Daniel.
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