[Qgis-psc] Contributor guidelines and code copyright

[Alexander Bruy]

Thanks for quick responses.

I'm asking because there is an discussion here. Can QGIS
contributor/developer
transfer his copyright to another person/company? So this 3rd party
person/company will become copyright holder on this code parts and will use
it
for their own purposes, e.g. for registration or something else.



2014-06-24 15:15 GMT+03:00 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:

> Hi
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have one small question regarding our contributor guidelines.
>>
>> Am I right that QGIS project is an owner of all code contributed to it by
>> authors and contributors? So every person that accepted contributor
>> guidelines and/or submitted patch also transfer/assign all rights on this
>> code to QGIS project.
>>
> As I understand, when copyright is assigned to the QGIS project, the
>> project
>> can act to stop GPL violations about the QGIS. Otherwise, legal actions
>> are
>> up to the code author(s).
>>
>> Seems our contributor guidelines miss this important information.
>>
>>
> I think we have discussed this in the past but have never made this a
> requirement - individual contributions are still copyright to their
> original contributors. There are mare projects that do request transfer of
> copyright but doing this retroactively is going to be hard (to track down
> all contributors and keep track of what has been 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.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> --
>> Alexander Bruy
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