On 22 April 2015 at 08:41, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is sounding not so promising for the future of jitsi as free software. > Atlassian seems to have no free software projects of their own whatsoever, and > there page about "open source" is basically a sales pitch: > > https://www.atlassian.com/opensource > > more here, it looks like this is probably the Atlassian press release, more or > less: > http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/atlassian-acquires-open-source-video-conferencing-company-bluejimp-to-power-hipchats-video-chat/ >
If they're going to use Jitsi's (open) source code in their closed source environment, and build on it without releasing the contributions (which is possible as they can relicense any additional developments to it) - it makes me wonder if past contributors to Jitsi can assert copyright over their contributions. (I assume Jitsi wasn't requiring contributor agreements like some projects do to clear similar hurdles.) I don't know much about this part of open source licensing though. -tom _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
