On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Awesome, thanks!
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