Contribution agreements (Re: [sldev] What is the point offirstlook and giving feedback to LL)

[Paul Oppenheim (Poppy Linden)]

Richard Stallman reads SLDev? And thinks that as long as a policy lets you keep ownership it's decent?

♥!

+ poppy

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Richard Stallman's original message probably didn't make it to the sldev 
> list, since we're automatically bouncing non-member mails now (he's 
> whitelisted now).  Quoted in entirety below, with my response afterward:
> 
> On 4/21/08 9:21 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> [Justin Ryan wrote:]
>>     You won't get any contributions from me directly as a
>>     member of the F/OSS community to a project where you can take credit
>>     for my code, and decide without my permission to use it as part of
>>     your business, without compensation.
>>
>> If I were the author of a change, the crucial question for me would be
>> whether my change might be released in a non-free version of the
>> program.  The worst outcome would be that some of my code might be
>> available to users _only_ in a non-free version.  So I would seek to
>> put something in the contract to rule that out.
>>   
> 
> Our contribution agreement is a joint copyright assignment, so the 
> original author retains full rights of authorship, and can ensure that 
> the modifications remain freely available.
> 
> Rob
> 
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