I'm no lawyer, but ... If you want to contribute regularly, this would be a bit of a nuissance for everyone involved, but as a practical matter, if the code for this .dll were in the public domain, nobody would have to sign anything to allow its use in any project. That is, public domain status is compatible with the CPL and even with the GNU GPL... and doesn't require signing complicated copyright-assignments.
Quote: "Being in the public domain is not a license --rather, it means the material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license." - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html If you wanted to make 100% sure that something was clearly in the public domain (assuming, of course, that there are no patents involved), you could use the Creative Commons process < http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain >... or just put a statement to that effect in the top of the source code files and publish them on a web page somewhere. E.g.: < http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ > As I said, I'm not a lawyer, and neither am I on the WiX Dev team (meaning: what's legally acceptable, and what's acceptable to the WiX team are not necessarily one and the same). -- Joel Bennett XEROX Technology. Document Management. Consulting Services. www.xerox.com -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Alberto Costa Beppler > Hi, I sent a little patch on bug database, but now I think that I must sign the same kind of agreement if I want to donate that code. Is that right? -----Original Message----- From: Albert van Peppen > The code is free for use, commercial or non-commercial and is based on some snippets from along tine ago. > Hi Rob, i've read the agreement before and it was discussed here also before so i figure you know why i can't just sign it ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
