Re: groupware for Fedora

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Copyright assignment also helps the copyright holder pursue people who violate the copyright. Basically, you need all the copyright holders to agree to legal action against people that violate the copyright. The fewer people on the list the better for this :)

Philip

Erwin Rol wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 18:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:54 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:


With some seriously ugly hacks i got it to compile and run, of course
still a lot of bugs but when it would be a real community project (no
copyright assignments, and no CC-non-commercial license) I think it can
be made to work with gcj.

Many community projects including all of the GNU ones require copyright
assignments. That is on many occasions a good practice.


And it is also a PITA to do paperwork before you can help with a
project. This about if everybody that helps with Fedora has to sign
legal paperwork, which of course is different in every country. Of
course if you want to sell the GPL work of others under a closed source
license like MySQl, Qt, Open-Xchange, than you need to be the copyright
holder. So the main thing copyright assignment does is turn GPL code
into BSD-like code (be it for a smaller group, the ones the copyrights
are assigned to). A true community project has no need for copyright
assignment.

- Erwin



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