<div dir="ltr">Hi<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Bruy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander.bruy@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexander.bruy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I have one small question regarding our contributor guidelines.<br>
<br>
Am I right that QGIS project is an owner of all code contributed to it by<br>
authors and contributors? So every person that accepted contributor<br>
guidelines and/or submitted patch also transfer/assign all rights on this<br>
code to QGIS project. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As I understand, when copyright is assigned to the QGIS project, the project<br>
can act to stop GPL violations about the QGIS. Otherwise, legal actions are<br>
up to the code author(s).<br>
<br>
Seems our contributor guidelines miss this important information.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we have discussed this in the past but have never made this a requirement - individual contributions are still copyright to their original contributors. There are mare projects that do request transfer of copyright but doing this retroactively is going to be hard (to track down all contributors and keep track of what has been transferred). Also from some discussions I have seen, such copyright transfer makes the project less attractive to contributors as it fosters a certain amount of distrust in the upstream project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
--<br>
Alexander Bruy<br>
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