Multi-people joint copyright with an organization like OSGeo also owning joint copyright is great and a very common model in open source. It doesn't seem that this is the case for geos though. A liberal license (such as LGPL) helps of course as it states very generous rights to use the source. My concern is what prevents a contributor from withdrawing the rights to use their source code on a whim?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2010 04:56, strk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strk@keybit.net">strk@keybit.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:53:33PM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote:<br>
> Hi Tom, All<br>
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> Saw the copyright notice in the change. Copyright for geos seems to be held<br>
> by a number of people and organizations. That seems legally murky to me but<br>
> I am not a lawyer. Has this been discussed previously?<br>
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</div>Not that I know about. I'm personally happy with multi-people copyright.<br>
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