It is a global issue. Many of the projects I contribute to require me (or anyone) to sign a special document which deals with the issue and TL;DR says you give (or share) all the needed rights to (or with) the project owners. Example: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mca/ So AFAIK anyone _can_ license their code as they wish. It is up to the project owners / maintainers to not allow badly licensed code to their projects. Annoying, but seems to be the only way. -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:43 PM Germano Massullo <germano.massullo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Italian identity card middleware for Linux cannot be packaged for Fedora because a developer assigned an "all rights reserved" licence to his code. > > In the ticket [1] where I raised this problem, some developers of the project said that they will investigate to find out if the lines of code of the "wrong" license maybe erased. > > My personal opinion is that only THE author must be the one allowed to change the licence of his own code, not another person. > > Is that correct? > > Best regards > > [1]: https://github.com/italia/cie-middleware-linux/issues/16 > > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
