Le lundi 18 janvier 2016 19:59:01, Aaron Boxer a écrit : > Hello, > > I am trying to learn more about how open source projects manage copyright > of contributors. > I see that various GDAL files have different copyright assignees, although > they all use the MIT > license. > > Is this difficult to manage?
Not until now. Copyright assignment to a single entity can be useful when dealing with potential future license changes, but given that X/MIT is one of the less restrictive license, it is unlikely to be needed to be changed. > For example, if GDAL is packaged for a > distribution such as Fedora, > how do you manage the license for the package? I think distributions refer to the LICENSE.TXT file at the root of GDAL source tree. The global licensing implications can however by more complex if you link GDAL with third-party libraries that can be GPL, LGPL, proprietary, etc... > Also, if a new contributor > were to add new functionality in a new file, is it ok for them to assign > copyright to themselves when submitting to the trunk ? Yes. > > Thanks very much, > Aaron -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
