2009/9/17 Greg DeKoenigsberg <g...@redhat.com>: > * This also requires a single copyright holder -- i.e. the party with whom > the CLA is binding. Which would require all authors to sign away their > copyright.
This is incorrect. There is no need for authors to sign away their copyright, they need only grant a sufficient rights to release the copyright under the agreed licence. More information on how CLAs work is at http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/cla.xml As a community we already discussed and agreed that individual authors will retain their copyright, so the CLA will *not* require copyright assignment, only licence grants. > Our options: > > + TOS as an org. We're not there yet, I don't think. > > + FLOSS Manuals as an org. I don't know that FM exists as a legal > entity either, since the copyrights seem to mostly be owned by > Adam Hyde. > > + Some company. I'd like to avoid that. > > + An individual. I suppose this could be me, or Adam Hyde of FLOSS > Manuals. + One of the many universities we have represented here + Proceed without CLAs and without OSS Watch's direct contribution. You can still take our content under a CC-BY-SA, it just means we can't put it up there for you. Since our content requires molding into a unified textbook the community may decide the effort is not worth it. Ross _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
