That's interesting. I note that that the clause does *not* assign copyright -- that is, the contributor retains copyright, but gives up all the rights that go along with it. That's the same thing for most purposes, but I think there's a difference if the material is libelous, or something like that, in which case who technically is the copyright holder may make a difference.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Deyan Ginev <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
