Hey folks,
I've been thinking for a while about the legal aspect of people
contributing to OpenLP (specifically who the code "belongs" to from a
copyright perspective). It's difficult because we're all from different
legal contexts (aka different countries), and what might constitute a
legally binding agreement in one might not in another. The way a lot
modern open source projects get around this is by making their
developers sign a Contributor License Agreement, which is supposed to
help the projects if legal action is taken on the project by some
company or other entity.
I'm not a fan of CLAs because they can sometimes go as far as forcing
copyright assignment from one party to another, and this doesn't sit
well with me.
I recently came across an alternative, which I think works better than a
CLA. It is called a Developer Certificate of Origin[0]. Basically, you
just declare that your code that you contributed is your own original
work, and this way the project as a whole can say, "look, this code was
not copied from $PRODUCT_X" to anyone who enquires.
What do you think?
[0] https://developercertificate.org/
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Raoul Snyman
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