On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Scott González <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It would mean that Joyent as a company is insulated from Node community >> issues like this one, and that would be a very good thing. >> > > Good for who? If Joyent is concerned, they can take the action of creating > a foundation. I don't think the community is concerned about this (I don't > think Joyent is either). > I think it would be good in both directions. Joyent was forced to answer by an angry misinformed mob. They calmed one group of people while offending others, and I don't really envy their position. Their response lost us a valuable member of the community who could have been educated (as StrongLoop now says they have successfully done) rather than offended. You may not be concerned about it but please don't force that opinion on me or others by saying what you think is the community opinion. > It would also mean there's never a concern over a company owning >> copyrights to Node >> > > I don't follow the logic here. The formation of a foundation doesn't > change any copyright at all. In fact, Joyent does not own the copyright to > the code. The copyright is shared by the individual contributors. It's > possible that the contributors employed by Joyent have signed a Copyright > Assignment Agreement, but even if they did, forming a foundation wouldn't > change that. The policy that Joyent put in place is that contributors > retain their rights and only grant a license to use/modify/sublicense/etc. > to Joyent. > Joyent still owns copyright on the logo and name. Matt. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" 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/groups/opt_out.
