Ken Foskey said: <snip> >You as author can assign copyright "for use" to multiple parties. I >have assigned copyright to Star Office and also OpenOffice.org when I >signed a long time ago.
Hi Ken, This raises an interesting question. Now as a disclaimer I promise you that I am interested in your thoughts and not trolling :) When you assigned copyright to Star Office & OOo does this mean that some meanie might be able to get control of this successful product, close the source and change the copyright, freezing you out of the picture alltogether and causing much wailing accross the FLOSS community? Being involved in OOo, do you have any thoughts about contributing to a project where you don't own your copyright? Are there assurances, is there trust or am I missing the point altogether? -- Kind regards, Hal Ashburner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
