On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:48:33 -0400
Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> // (2) By default, any changes submitted by community members fall under this
> // same license. Traversal Technology will openly publish all internally
> // and externally-provided modifications to this work under this same
> // license. Traversal Technology may opt to not publish IP that may
> // or may not be considered a derivative work (ie. a chip).
Be very carefull here. You are dealing with international
copyright laws, thus you have to consider that there are
versions of it out there that value the rights of an author
a lot more than the US laws.
Especialy the above paragraph would be considered at least
invalid if not illegal in Switzerland (and AFAIK in quite
a lot of european countries) because one cannot hand over
the copyright of a work _by_default_ to someone else.
You _need_ some kind of agreement (written, spoken, etc)
that Traversal Technology is handed over at least the
right to use the work under their license. I talk here
about the right to use, because most european countries
differenciate between the right to use and the ownership
of a work. The former can be handed over quite easily while
the latter, in some cases, cannot at all (ie stays always
with the author).
IMHO the best idea is, as already mentioned a few times,
a signing off in every patch. Ie if someone sends a patch
it needs to contain a clause that it's copyright/right to use
is handed over to Traversal. The case for people with SVN
access is easier, they just have to agree when they
get their login, that everything they commit will fall
under the Traversal license and that they will not use any
3rd party code that might conflict with this license.
This should not be a problem now, as those with svn
access are still a few (iirc 4) and there haven't been
many patches yet.
Attila Kinali
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