On 2/9/07, Jan Ciger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, this is the main reason why they are asking for the copyright to be assigned to them. However, if ever FSF decides to change the license to e.g. GPL v.3 they can do it as well, since they are the sole copyright owner. Of course, it is possible that when you assign the copyright to them they could let you retain some rights with regards to this, but that I do not have a clue about - I have never dealt with them.
From my understanding, you would retain rights to the work before the
FSF took over as copyright owner, and can license this how you wish. Each time there is a license change there is effectively a license branch from the original work under the original license, the original work under the original license doesn't die - it might just sit on the shelf gathering dust, but you won't loose rights to what was originally under your copyright. What you will loose is the rights to the work once its been branched and you've assigned rights to another party. If this wasn't so things would get real messy for many many companies out there, such as when a company buys out the rights to an another producers software product, or when an engineer developers software for his/her company. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
