<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>Le lundi 18 janvier 2016 19:59:01, Aaron Boxer a écrit :<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I am trying to learn more about how open source projects manage copyright<br>
> of contributors.<br>
> I see that various GDAL files have different copyright assignees, although<br>
> they all use the MIT<br>
> license.<br>
><br>
> Is this difficult to manage?<br>
<br>
</span>Not until now. Copyright assignment to a single entity can be useful when<br>
dealing with potential future license changes, but given that X/MIT is one of<br>
the less restrictive license, it is unlikely to be needed to be changed.<br>
<span><br>
> For example, if GDAL is packaged for a<br>
> distribution such as Fedora,<br>
> how do you manage the license for the package?<br>
<br>
</span>I think distributions refer to the LICENSE.TXT file at the root of GDAL source<br>
tree. The global licensing implications can however by more complex if you<br>
link GDAL with third-party libraries that can be GPL, LGPL, proprietary,<br>
etc...<br>
<span><br>
> Also, if a new contributor<br>
> were to add new functionality in a new file, is it ok for them to assign<br>
> copyright to themselves when submitting to the trunk ?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Awesome, thanks!<br><br></div><div> <br></div></div><br></div></div>