Quoting Howard Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [You'd like to retain the option to dual-license your codebase.]
> Accordingly, while I very much want to encourage people to submit bug > reports and patches, I also want to maintain sole ownership of the product. > I understand that copyright might become complicated if I allow outside > contributions, and I want to make sure I understand all the legal issues of > doing so. Can anybody provide me pointers to further information on this > topic? (I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.) Indeed, it's my understanding that, in the USA, assignments of copyright must indeed be in a prescribed written form, to become effective per the Copyright Act. Other jurisdictions might differ. Searching Google for "assignment copyright form gpl" brings up a number of projects' standard copyright-assignment forms. You might wish to pattern yours after Ximian's, for example, downloadable here: http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/contributing.html -- Cheers, Always remember: Clones are people two! Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
