> Even with the "safe harbor," there's a lot to be concerned about when
> dealing with material that originates beyond the SRD.
The Free Software Foundation is leery of these issues too.
When you want to work on the 'official' version of a FSF project, like any
of the GNU utilities, before your code will be reviewed for inclusion you
have to sign some documents that transfer copyright to the FSF. If you work
for a corporation, an officer of the corporation has to sign them too.
As a result, the GNU software copyrights are all held by one entity; which
means that the FSF can re-license the code under terms other than the GPL if
it desires to do so. (Though to the best of my knowlege, it never has).
The nice thing, from the perspective of the FSF, is that they probably don't
have to worry about someone coming out of the woodwork and claiming
copyright infringement (at least, no more than any entity has to worry that
one of it's employees/contribututors is cheating).
A similar concept might be a good way for a commercial publisher to behave.
On the other hand, Red Hat seems to put everything including the kitchen
sink in their Linux distribution without fear, but your business model may
vary...
Ryan
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