On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org>wrote:
> Re: Dual Ownership > > Yes, CrossWire as always had the policy of requiring ownership be also > granted to CrossWire for any contributions which get added to our > repository. This has been discussed many times and should be posted > conspicuously in multiple locations on our website (I hope it is still). > It doesn't mean the original author loses their ownership, but they must > grant ownership rights also to CrossWire. The reason has indeed been that > Bible societies, translation organizations, and other ministries have at > times asked to use our engine within a work which is not GPL and we > consider their request and almost always grant permission. I personally am > not religious about the GPL. My personal goal is to write free software to > aid ministries to serve their people groups. If they feel their ministry > is served best by asking for donations or selling part of their work to > fund future work, I may not always agree with them, but that is their > choice. I don't feel it's my place to dictate to them how their ministry > should be run, at the risk that I won't aid their ministry. If anyone > would have submitted code or a patch which included a copyright notice by > other than CrossWire Bible Society or by any other license than the GPL, it > would not have been accepted. The reason I didn't choose an MIT style > license is to better encourage commercial vendors to contribute back to our > code, if they ever find parts of it useful. That hasn't worked so well :( > I hope no one feels they have been cheated. We have always openly > maintained this policy and the copyright notice is universal throughout our > code base. I also hope we all feel the same about still aiding ministries > where it would be difficult for them to change their product licenses to > GPL. > > Troy > > I think this is a good policy since it makes us accountable to God.
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