"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> 2008/6/20 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> > Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> >> I think having a single entity able to relicense the code base does
> >> provide the community a benefit, which is why it's seen in other
> >> communities,
> >> like the FSF copyright assignment for contributions to GNU projects,
> >
> > What the FSF tries to do is illegal: you cannot transfer the "Copyright"
> > (*).
> > This is forbidden by law. THe maximum you can do is to give away "exclusive
> > rights to use".
>
> It depends on which country you are from. Some countries allow
> copyright assignment or transfer.
I know but a majority of OSS is from Europe where this transfer is forbidden.
J?rg
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