It is as true in grade school as it is when we're all grown up, you can't
copy other people's stuff and say it's yours. Thus you also cannot give
other people's stuff away without their permission.
Since some number of governments decided that source code follows copyright
law those simple rules hopefully make it clear who needs to sign the
assignment agreement.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> On 31-Aug-13 11:18, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > Can't Steven put the change in the public domain and someone who's
> already signed the agreement can commit it?
> Moving to wix-devs and adding Rob. Remember, I'm not a lawyer but I play
> one on mailing lists. (In the following, "you" == "one" without sounding
> too pretentious.)
>
> As contributor, you're saying you have the rights to contribute the code
> you're contributing. If it's your code, that's the easiest/cleanest
> case. If you wrote it for your job, you might not have the rights to
> contribute it without getting your employer involved in the contributor
> agreement. (Labor law is nice and murky even within one country's borders.)
>
> Add one more person to the mix and it's even murkier.
>
> I don't want to lose out on valuable contributions but I do want to keep
> the IP paperwork in order.
>
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