[gdal-dev] GDAL license and copyright

[Aaron Boxer]

Hello,

I am trying to learn more about how open source projects manage copyright
of contributors.
I see that various GDAL files have different copyright assignees, although
they all use the MIT
license.

Is this difficult to manage? For example, if GDAL is packaged for a
distribution such as Fedora,
how do you manage the license for the package?  Also, if a new contributor
were to add new functionality in a new file, is it ok for them to assign
copyright to themselves when submitting to the trunk ?

Thanks very much,
Aaron
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