Hi everyone, Please find below (and attached in word) an Assignment of Copyright in Revisions of Freenet document.
The purpose of this document, modeled on a GNU public license doc (Assignment of Copyright in Revisions of GNU Classpath, Essential Libraries for Java), is to transfer individual developer copyrights for each developer's work on Freenet over to the Freenet Project, Inc., our non-prof corp. that was formed some time ago. It's a straightforward document, and fairly self-explanatory. Please take a look, and let me know if there are any questions. Otherwise, please print out two copies, sign where indicated at the bottom and forward to Freenet at: Freenet Project Inc. 2554 Lincoln Blvd #712 Venice, CA 90291 Once received, we'll countersign and return a copy back to you, along with a check from the Freenet Project for one dollar as required. Thanks very much! Steven Starr Freenet Project non-prof coordinator ____________________________________________________________ ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT IN REVISIONS OF FREENET For $1 and other good and valuable consideration received from Freenet Project, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation of the State of California, hereinafter "FPI", the undersigned "Developer" does hereby agree as follows: 1. (a) Developer hereby agrees to assign and does hereby assign to FPI Developer?s copyright in changes and/or enhancements to the program FREENET (herein called the Program). These changes and/or enhancements are herein called the Works. (b) The assignment of par. 1(a) above applies to all past and future works of Developer that constitute changes and enhancements to the Program. (c) For the purpose of this contract, a work "based on the Works" means any work that in whole or in part incorporates or is derived from all or part of the Works. (d) FPI agrees to grant back to Developer, and does hereby grant, non-exclusive, royalty-free and non-cancelable rights to use the Works (i.e., Developer?s changes and/or enhancements, not the Program that they enhance), as Developer sees fit; this grant back does not limit FPI?s rights and public rights acquired through this agreement (e) FPI has all the rights of a copyright owner in the assigned copyrights, subject to the license grantback to developer stated above, including the right to enforce the copyright in aid of the free software purposes of this agreement, and the right to use, license and distribute the works, or works based on the works, with the program enhanced thereby or as stand-alone modules, all as made or acquired by developer or in modified form. FPI may charge a fee of its choosing for the service of distribution. 2. Developer will report occasionally, on his/her/her initiative and whenever requested by FPI, the changes and/or enhancements which are covered by this contract, and (to the extent known to Developer) any outstanding rights, or claims of rights, of any person, that might be adverse to the rights of Developer or FPI or to the purpose of this contract. 3. (a) The parties shall execute such documents and undertake such acts as may be requested by the other to implement the letter and spirit of this agreement and any conveyance stated herein, subject to a limitation of reasonableness of such request with attention to cost and time burdens imposed thereby. (b) The undertakings in par. 3 (a), above, are without prejudice to the conveyance made through this assignment document. The intention of FPI and Developer is that this assignment document will be supplemented rarely, if at all, by other documents. 4. FPI agrees that all distribution of the Works, or of any work "based on the Works"? or the Program as enhanced by the Works, that takes place under the control of FPI or its agents or successors, shall be on terms that explicitly and perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute copies of the work to anyone on the same terms. These terms shall not restrict which members of the public copies may be distributed to. These terms shall not require a member of the public to pay any royalty to FPI or to anyone else for the permitted use of the work they apply to, or to communicate with FPI or its agents or assignees in any way either when redistribution is preformed or on any other occasion. 5. FPI agrees that any program "based on the Works" offered to the public by FPI or its agents or assignees shall be offered in the form of machine-readable source code, in addition to any other forms of FPI?s choosing. However, FPI is free to choose at its convenience the media of distribution for machine-readable source code and may charge a fee of its choosing for copies. 6. Developer hereby agrees that if he has or acquires hereafter any patent or interface copyright or other intellectual property interest dominating the Works, the Program, the Program as enhanced by the Works, or other enhancements to the Program, or the use of any of those, such dominating interest will not be used to undermine the effect of this agreement, i.e. the Foundation and the general public will be licensed to use, in that program or programs and their derivative works, without royalty or limitation, the subject matter of the dominating interest. This license provision will be binding on the assignees of, or other successors to, the dominating interest, as well on Developer. This license grant is nonexclusive, as royalty-free and non-cancelable. 7. (a) Developer warrants to FPI that his/her reports in accord with section 2 above are accurate and that he is the sole copyright holder of the Works conveyed either now or in the future under this agreement. (b) Developer agrees to hold FPI harmless from damage arising out of any breach of this warranty, and/or any adverse ownership interest not reported by Developer and resulting in direct or indirect harm to FPI. Developer?s warranty and hold harmless obligation does not run to the general public except insofar as damage to the public results in harm to FPI. (c) Developer is not obliged to defend FPI against any spurious claim of adverse ownership, but will cooperate with FPI in defending against any such claim and will indemnify FPI for all losses if the claim is not spurious, i.e. if the adverse claimant is a true owner and FPI is thereby damaged, including but not limited to the amount of all adverse damage judgments and costs of litigation. (d) Developer makes no other express or implied warranty (including without limitation, in this disclaimer of warranty, any warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). 8. This agreement and all conveyances made pursuant hereto are deemed made in Massachusetts, this agreement and all such conveyances being deemed made under seal, as of the date of fixation of any work covered hereby in tangible form and, also, as of the date of execution of this agreement by Developer. Signature: _______________________ Print your name: _______________________ Date: _______________________ Thanks for contributing to the Freenet Project! ACCEPTED: FREENET PROJECT, INC. Steven Starr _______________________ _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
