[sldev] About Linden Lab has not "completely accepted open source development"

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 15:30 -0800, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Quite frankly, I should probably advise /against/
> having our developers listen to anyone who hasn't signed an agreement,
> since it would be really bad to come up with a design, and then have
> someone claim it was their idea and they didn't license it to us. 
> Perhaps it might make sense to actually have a separate mailing list
> where only those who actually sign contributor agreements can post, and
> make it clear that mailing list postings are contributions.

What other open source project does this? Requiring copyright assignment
for actual merged code, yes. Requiring it to blab on a mailing list is
going a bit far.

Besides, copyright only applies to actual code. Ownership of abstract
"designs" and "ideas" falls under the realm of software patents. Which
is a whole different matter...
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