Given things have proved more complex than I anticipated, I want to separate out the issue of assignment of copyright, to change what I propose, and to start the discussion over. (Though of course we'll all have the old one in mind.)
I propose to have *no* assignment of copyright for any of my repos. From the previous discussion, this seems to be the trend in the open source community, and the position most likely to attract contributors and users. With Marpa::R2 and Libmarpa, this means keeping the status quo. No change. In the Kollos distribution, I had started it with an assignment of copyright line in the README. I propose to remove this, so that all of my repos are consistent: none of them will require, request, or accept, assignments of copyright. (I now see that I should have announced the assignment of copyright clause that I was adding to the Kollos repo. In mitigation of this mistake, I'd point out that it's had no significant contributions but mine, and that at the time I thought that move was unproblematic.) You'll notice that I'm being very careful in these IP matters. I think they deserve it, not least because they set a tone within the Marpa community. And, of course, the largest downside of not having copyright assignment, is that it becomes very hard to undo any mistakes. I hope from this fresh start, the question of copyright assignment will come to a quick consensus. Once this issue is settled, I will re-raise the issue of re-licensing under the MIT/Lua license. -- 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.
