[Incubator] Transfering Code Copyright - restart

[Markus Neteler]

Thanks for the clarification, Rich.
Sorry if we bother you, but this is really complicated terrain for
(some of) us. :-)

Markus

On 9/7/06, rich at richsteele.org <rich at richsteele.org> wrote:
> Quoting Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com>:
>
> > Rich, all,
> >
> > I am rather sure that this passage:
> >
> > " 2. License Terms. OSGeo will make the Contributions available under
> > a license certified by the Open Source Initiative and may also make
> > the Contributions available under other license terms.
> > "
> >
> > from the proposed document will not be accepted by various
> > GRASS developers (see earlier discussion). The issue is that
> > this passage (to my understanding) implies that GPL'ed code
> > can be changes to, say, MIT license.
>
> Markus,
>
> I think you may be missing the point.  This is a copyright assignment
> for those persons who want to give total ownership of their code to
> the foundation.  If the foundation owns the code, it can essentially
> do with it what it wants.  The GRASS developers who earlier complained
> about the breadth of the contributor license agreement would not be
> the intended signatories of this agreement -- clearly if they wouldn't
> sign the CLA, they wouldn't sign a document giving someone else
> ownership over their contributions.  For GRASS, I think it has been
> settled that: (i) contributions will continue to be owned by the
> individual developer; (ii) those contributions will be licensed by the
> developer under the GPL; and (iii) no CLA will be required by the
> GRASS PSC.
>
> The copyright assignment form is only for those folks like Frank and
> others who have expressed an interest in simply donating the code
> outright to OSGeo.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>


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