[Qgis-psc] Contributor guidelines and code copyright

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Tue Jun 24 05:18:42 PDT 2014


Il 24/06/2014 14:15, Tim Sutton ha scritto:

> 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.

Agreed. With this arrangement, it would be possible to change the licence to a less
free one. Having a dispersed ownership is an insurance against a project steering
away from (GPL) freedom.

All the best.
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