One of the projects I am contributing to is driven by the US government, and is thus mandated by law to be released in the Public Domain. After years of wondering what is the right way of assigning copyright for non-gov contributors we ended up with a simple notice in the LICENSE file, together with the chief maintainer informally reminding new contributors that they are waving their copyright on submission. The notice is here: https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML/blob/master/LICENSE#L20
We initially sent special emails to the maintainer declaring that we waive copyright, but 7 years down the road copyright assignment has never been raised even once as a point of discussion by anyone, be it users or newcomer contributors. Just a few details from personal experience. Greetings, Deyan On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Kegler < [email protected]> wrote: > For the time being, I'm shelving my plan to add an assignment of copyright > line to Libmarpa and Marpa::R2. David Yingling is the only visible > objecter, but that does not mean there are not others out there whom it > makes uneasy. > > A big factor is that I don't know of any other project which does > copyright assignment in this way, which may be a bad sign. > > I may re-raise this after some thought, but for now the assignment of > copyright policy will stay as it is in all my repos. > > In the meantime, further commentary is welcome. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
