Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Even FSF projects require some sort of contributor agreement for
contributions of a certain scope to gcc, etc.
FSF does the same thing for the same reasons that SCA does. It has
nothing to do with assurances of original authorship, and *everything*
to do with making sure that there is a single copyright owner who can
change the license at any time. (This allows FSF to globally change the
GPLv2 to v3 on its projects, for example, without requiring individual
authors to sign another agreement.)
BSD projects don't do this, btw.
They may not require it, but some do allow it - for instance, the NetBSD
Foundation last year changed the license on all the code which contributors
had donated the copyright to them. (Dropping one of the previous BSD
license clauses.)
So maybe an option -- integrate your code under a BSD license, or if you
use CDDL then you need to sign an SCA?
- Garrett
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