After some reading and talking, to people that knows a lot more than myself, I arrived to the following conclusions: * Using the LXQt contributors way implies that we will have no means to enforce it. LXQt contributors is not an legal entity. If it were a legal entity, CLA signing would be needed. * Who is entitled to do licence changes in the LXQt contributors model ? Anyone ? Can someone make a couple of contributions and then fork and change the licence ?
Paulo and Palo are Ok with the proposed change. I'm not. Sorry, but I will continue putting myself as the copyright holder. I'm not happy with the perspective of someone that didn't do squat being able to relicence the code. On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Luís Pereira <luis.artur.pere...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sympathetic to this effort. Worst than the model being broken, > it's copyright law and specially It's practice that's broken. > IADNAL also. In our circumstances, I don't know of any solution that > achieve the desired goals and provides an valid copyright. IADNAL > > I'm reading this to educate myself: > http://opensource.org/faq > http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html > http://producingoss.com > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Jerome Leclanche <jer...@leclan.ch> wrote: >> Thanks for the feedback guys. >> >> Regarding the "LXQt contributors" not being a legal entity: I hear the >> concern. The goal is to word it in such a way that the copyright is >> broadly applied to whoever contributed to the project. I think my >> current proposal covers this but I'm open to suggestions. >> >> The way I see it, the current model is broken either way. Anybody can >> just come in and modify the copyright header, add their names to it >> after fixing a typo or some such. And other devs who work on the other >> 99.9% of the code won't necessarily bother to add their name. >> >> I'm going off my limited knowledge of copyright law here, and IADNAL >> :) I'd love to hear other proposals, as long as they follow the main >> goals: >> >> - Shrink the headers as much as possible >> - Standardize them >> - Remove the need to ever change them >> >> J. Leclanche > > > > -- > Luís Pereira -- Luís Pereira ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
