On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
I didn't force anything on you or anyone else. I said "I don't think…" as in "my view is…" not "it is fact that…" Reading into things like this is what caused such a huge uproar in the first place. 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. > That's a trademark, not a copyright. Are you concerned that Google owns the Chrome logo or that Mozilla owns the Firefox logo? I'm not sure why this is a concern anyway; if the foundation owned the logo, like the jQuery Foundation owns the jQuery logo, the rights of the community would likely still be limited. -- -- 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.
