Gavin King wrote:
Thanks Kevin!
Copyright is always owned by the code author unless explicitly assigned to someone else, or unless the code is a "work for hire". My contract with JBoss states explicitly that work I do on Hibernate is not "for hire" and I retain all copyright on Hibernate. Any code that anyone else writes and contributes to Hibernate is of course owned by them (unless they have some kind of contract with =their= employer).
However, with the LGPL, it doesn't especially matter who owns copyright. However, this arrangement does mean that only the code authors (and never JBG) could ever take Hibernate and =change= the license.
It goes w/o saying that we will never change the Hibernate license to anything more (eg. take it closed source).
Congrats,
I'm the more open source projects that pick up some form of sponsorship the better. For better or worst the JBoss group gets lots of attention so more exposure for hibernate. I was a bit disappointed that the jboss group website doesn't mention the announcement.
One question I have is ... who will own the copyright on the source?
-k.
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