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Re: Future code ownership
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at toohappy dot toronto dot redhat dot com>
- To: Bart Veer <bartv at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: ecos-maintainers at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:53:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: Future code ownership
bartv wrote:
> [...] if we are going to bother with copyright
> assignments at all then we might as well do it properly.
I'm still being misunderstood. My point is that you might find a way
to go *without* formal copyright assignments to a central organization,
and still be relatively safe from corporate copyrights.
> The FSF has
> defined certain procedures which it considers necessary, and it has
> some very good legal advisors.
Yes, whatever they have makes sense to them for their assignment-based
scheme, and there has been little "competition" to discourage excessive
barriers to contribution.
- FChE