[gdal-dev] GDAL license and copyright

[Aaron Boxer]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le lundi 18 janvier 2016 19:59:01, Aaron Boxer a écrit :
> > 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?
>
> Not until now. Copyright assignment to a single entity can be useful when
> dealing with potential future license changes, but given that X/MIT is one
> of
> the less restrictive license, it is unlikely to be needed to be changed.
>
> > For example, if GDAL is packaged for a
> > distribution such as Fedora,
> > how do you manage the license for the package?
>
> I think distributions refer to the LICENSE.TXT file at the root of GDAL
> source
> tree. The global licensing implications can however by more complex if you
> link GDAL with third-party libraries that can be GPL, LGPL, proprietary,
> etc...
>
> > 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 ?
>
> Yes.
>
>
Awesome, thanks!
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