[Qgis-psc] Contributor guidelines and code copyright

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Vincent,

thanks for your reply.

2014-06-24 17:24 GMT+03:00 Vincent Picavet <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>:
> Hence, someone can write some code for QGIS, stay the author of the code, but
> for one part makes this code available in QGIS for use as GPLv2, and for
> another part makes this same code available for someone else as another
> licence.
> This is also the basics for the Dual-Licencing business model.
>
> These concepts may vary according to local laws, but the global rules are
> these ones.

Situation is a bit different. Developer will stay the author of the
code in any case.
Company wants to get copyright on the code, written by developer some time
ago on volunteer basis (no paid work). So this company will be a
copyright holder
on the part of QGIS code. No dual-licensing, no another market place.

As I understand from this thread individual contributions are still
copyright to their
original contributors. So developer can freely assign his copyright to
any other person.
What about license headers in this case? Whether we need to update them and
replace old copyright holder with new one? What if file was created by
one dev (and his
copyright is in header and will be replaced) and updated also by other devs?

Seems this is very complex issue, so I don't expect clear answers but
some thought
is welcome.

-- 
Alexander Bruy