On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > 2. Much more stringent requirements are put on lots of projects > > You may have heard of the GNU project. Are you aware that all > contributors to GNU project must sign over not just license > agreements, but copyright assignments? > > Just this week a new project came along called OpenStack, and all > contributors must sign a license agreement to the central body. > > This is normal and there are very good reasons these organizations do > what they do.
However, that its the original agreement which all of these contributors signed up using. Other projects have different ways of handling the copyright issues. Both schemes are *normal* but changing between them is not. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
