Re: Copyright assignment

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

[dropped Jeff fromcc:, he'll see it coming rom the list anyways]

 --- Christoffer Olsen <co deworks net> wrote: 
> 
> I would have no problems assigning copyright to the Foundation for my
> GNOME work, but I'd like to see a clause in the assignment that tells me
> that the Foundation must distribute this code under the terms of the GPL
> (or the licence that applies to the module contributed to), and failure
> to do so removes the Foundation's right to copy the code.
> 

Well... The lower something is in the stack themore we care about it, so the parts
we care about most are the platform and all of that is LGPL. 

> Now, the only problem is that copyright assignment creates a lot of
> paperwork, but hopefully an assignment can be signed once, and stay
> valid under the terms given.
> 

Yes. Though note that if you switch companies etc you may occasionaly need to get
them to sign extra paperwork dependning on their IP policy. Other than that, a
single assignment would work.

> This is a bit babblish, mostly because of a lack of knowledge on this
> area, but I think you get my point.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Christoffer
> 



	
	
		
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