Hello, On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 13:08, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE <jmpo...@gooze.eu> wrote: > OpenSC copyright belongs to the group of people who wrote OpenSC, > which is all of us. It does not belong to any company and an individual > granting rights to other individuals.
In legal terms, *copyright* on OpenSC belongs to the authors who have contributed code, and/or marked it down in source code. The fact that other, unknown persons (not established in source code as copyright owners) have code in OpenSC source tree is also known, as there is no legal body (foundation, like Gnome or GNU or similar) that would govern licensing in OpenSC. This has also helped "free" some source code that has been grabbed by some companies and turned into their offerings, without giving source code. Thus everybody are free to use the source code on the same terms, which is mostly LGPL (there are exceptions, like the Tokend code wihich is not LGPL as it is derived from Apple source code etc etc) > To be more precise: > > Peter, Ludovic and Martin do not have any legal right to establish > rules over OpenSC project. Especially if these rules go > in the direction of more bureaucracy. We have to accept collaboration > whenever possible. The only "legal right" is what is written in LGPL or other licenses and I'm pretty sure that nobody wants to change that. But yes, you are right. Martin _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
