>I'm afraid that even though your project may well be worth it you won't >attract (m)any developers on this list by stating something like "you'd >need to be happy about me taking over the copyright of any stuff you >send me".
with all due respect to Jan, I would point out that the Ardour project requires this as well. this does not seem to have daunted anyone from contributing. i do not claim copyright on pre-existing code that is used in Ardour, which is why the startup message credits copyright for portions of ardour to a few other people (steve harris in particular, the person who wrote libxml++ and a guy who worked with me on the undo/redo system in a generic way unrelated to ardour). i do this because if i ever want to negotiate a non-GPL license arrangement with ACompanyWhoWantsMeToRetireAnotherTime, then i need control of all the copyrights. the fact that ardour is linked against several GPL'ed libraries in non-trivial ways makes it hard to see how any non-GPL'ed instance could ever exist, but hey, my wallet would be happy :) --p
