Contribution agreements (Re: [sldev] What is the point offirstlook
and giving feedback to LL)
Paul Oppenheim (Poppy Linden)
poppy at lindenlab.com
Tue Apr 22 18:08:56 PDT 2008
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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