On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:53:33PM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote:
Hi Tom, All
Saw the copyright notice in the change. Copyright for geos seems to be held
by a number of people and organizations. That seems legally murky to me but
I am not a lawyer. Has this been discussed previously?
Not that I
Multi-people joint copyright with an organization like OSGeo also owning
joint copyright is great and a very common model in open source. It doesn't
seem that this is the case for geos though. A liberal license (such as LGPL)
helps of course as it states very generous rights to use the source. My
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:53:59AM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote:
My concern is what prevents a contributor from withdrawing the rights to use
their source code on a whim?
I don't understand this concern.
You mean what prevents people to assign a different licence to the code they
commit to the
They can't withdraw rights to use it, they've licensed it under the
LGPL. Once it's out, it's out. Multi-copyright projects are all over
the place, it's not a big deal. The only thing copyright assignment
gets you is the ability to change the license of future releases of
the code. (The old
