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

Matthew Dowd matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk
Wed Apr 23 01:07:59 PDT 2008


> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:36 -0700, Justin Ryan wrote:> > You have a lot of reading to do. The problem is frankly that it is> > unethical and illegal without proper permission to take Free Software> > and turn it into Open-Source. I simply have a lot of trouble> > believing that everything contributed under this agreement will be an> > original idea, not derived from another GPL work that someone not> > agreeing to these terms have rights over.
That sounds like an argument against any project (open source or not) taking any contributions from any programmer (employed or not) on the basis that most code will not be original and will resemble code in another project (GPLed or not).
 
Matthew
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