I've just removed the only copyright assignment language that was in any of my repos -- the language I had put into the kollos repo. So that, I believe, closes this issue.
I'll return to other licensing stuff, with a new RFD, in a while, after I've caught up with other matters. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:57 AM, David Yingling <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. No copyright assignment is best, because it is a very polarizing > topic > in the open source community. I seem to be the only one on this list who's > very > vocal against it, but larger issues like the annoying required paperwork to > actually achieve copyright assignment, or that virtually no open source > project's even use copyright assignment are also at work. Quite a few open > source projects use CLAs, but only the FSF seems to use full blown copyright > assignment successfully, and they have extra staff to handle the added > paperwork. > > I'm glad you decided to tread carefully here, because a confusing legal > situation with a open source project's license might also keep interested > users > and contributors away. > > Switching to MIT should be possible due to both projects having few big > contributors, and rewritting a few smaller contributors' odd documentation > fixes here or there shouldn't be too big a job. The biggest hurdle might be > small patches from others that you yourself as the project leader have added > to > git under your own name. I don't know if any such patches exist, but that's a > possible headache with switching licenses. It might also be possible to choose > to ignore the small patches, and just be sure all the big pieces are in order, > but proper accounting of all patches getting relicensed to MIT would provide > better piece of mind especially for those who absolutely must avoid GPL code. > > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:28:53 -0800 > Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > -- > 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.
