Rob,
Take a look at the Contributing section on the NUnitForms project:
http://nunitforms.sourceforge.net/cvs.html
By the way, you mentioned that Apache requires a similar agreement, but
there doesn't seem to be any mention of it at all on the Apache httpd
server's development page (http://httpd.apache.org/dev/patches.html),
or on any other Apache projects for that matter...A
Just out of interest: GNU does not seem to *require* a transfer of
copyright (assignment agreement), they merely state that if the
copyright is transfered, the FSF will enforce it. See
http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html
"For a program to be GNU software does not require
transferring
copyright to the FSF; that is a separate question. If you transfer
the copyright to the FSF, the FSF will enforce the GPL for the program
if someone violates it; if you keep the copyright, enforcement will be
up to you."
The issue appears to be only in contributing to FSF projects which are
copyrighted by FSF. As per
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html#Copyright-Papers.
It also seems that they use a similar snail mail process...
Rob Mensching wrote:
I'd love to be able to contribute to WiX (in particular
MSBuild support and Votive) but the hoop-jumping
required to complete the assignment agreement totally
put me off.
I know what you are saying here. The assignment agreement has been
something I've been arguing against since the beginning. The problem is
that I don't know how to mitigate the legal risks that the assignment
agreement is designed to address.
Why the requirement for us to print off and post
a piece of paper to Microsoft? All other open source
projects I've worked on have been happy with a
message sent to the mailing list stating that I've read the
agreement and will abide by the terms within.
The paper return drives me crazy as well. The signature is the most
important piece of information on the assignment agreement. Faxing doesn't
even seem to suffice. Not that faxing is much better, IMHO. I would like a
purely electronic way to get the assignment agreement out of the way.
If you can point me at the instructions for other projects where and email
is acceptable for the assignment agreement, I would appreciate it. I'll
point the people I argue with on the assignment agreement at those as
examples of something maybe we can do with the WiX toolset as well.
The thought of my name and signature floating
around in the offices of a company I don't trust
(Microsoft) in a country with lax or non-existant
data-protection laws where personal data seems
to be lost/sold/stolen on a daily basis isn't a happy one.
This seems very grandiose and overstated. The information provided in the
assignment agreements is never publicly available. It isn't even accessible
to people outside the legal department. I have to ask for the list of names
to cross check contributions... one of the reasons it takes so long for me
to get back to Gabor sometimes. <smile/>
I would fear that the signed paper would get lost in the mail more than it
being leaked/stolen by Microsoft. The information will never be sold.
I wonder how many other developers that could
be helping this project get put off when they
receive that email back from WiX Admin?
About three (I'm on wixadmin). However, it is impossible to tell how many
people never sent mail to wixadmin because sending email is too much hassle
to begin with.
I don't like the assignment agreement anymore than you do. If I had my way,
everyone would just get along and we wouldn't need all these legal
considerations. Then I could focus on the code and community.
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