On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:40:42 -0800 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. > Are you still going to change the license to MIT? Copyright assignment isn't needed to change the license. It could have made changing the license easier if you had started your project with copyright assignment. But adding copyright assignment now or in the future does not retroactively allow you to take past contributors' copyrights from them allowing you to more easily change the license. Copyright assignment is just not needed to change the license. An interesting corollary exists in academia where copyright assignment is required to get your papers published in academic journals. They'll often even prevent authors of papers from putting their paper up on their own Website for free download, because the whole academic publishing industry relies on big fees from university libraries to be profitable, and free access scares these publishers like bittorrent does Hollywood. Academics seem to have accepted copyright assignment for the most part with some detractors, but open-source software seems to have rejected it for the most part. > 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 think that is more convincing than any of my arguments are. FSF does it so they can sue GPL violators more effectively. OpenOffice seems to require copyright assignment to Sun/Oracle so they can sell StarOffice, but Oracle may have dumped StarOffice. LibreOffice does not require copyright assignment. As previously mentioned Ubuntu and Canonical tried copyright assignment, but had to switch to CLA. It seems copyright assignment has "lost", and if your lawyers require something like it the company or non-profit uses a CLA instead. > 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.
