[GRASSLIST:10261] Re: GRASS Project Steering Committee and more

[Māris Nartišs]

2006/2/11, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> > o One benefit of the foundation is some degree of legal
> >    support and protection for the project. The flip side of that
> >    is that the foundation needs to ensure some degree of
> >    rigor and process in how code comes into the project. One
> >    part of that is getting committers to sign a legal agreement
> >    indicating that they agree that changes they commit will
> >    be under the license of GRASS (GPL) and that they have
> >    the right to submit the code (they wrote it, it is not
> >    patented, have permission from their employer, etc).
>
> Regarding the "not patented" bit, I hope that they are only asking for
> a declaration that the author isn't aware of any applicable patents,
> not indemnity against "accidental" infringment.
>

"not patented" - where? Software patents does not work in EU, but work
in other places (US). So - not patented in US or code authors country?

Software patents just is very delicate thing :)

Just my 0.02,
Maris.