Hello, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:28:26AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:13 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:07 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > > Why should people have this level of trust to Red Hat, Inc., whose > > > stated goal is to generate maximal profit for the shareholders? > > > > Please show me where in the CLA / FAS we ask you to assign copyright to > > Red Hat. Please. > > We do not ask contributors to assign copyright, but we ask them to give > us a non-revocable license to do what we please with the code. > > The (C) is still fully in the hands of the author. that's exactly what I had in mind. The output is similar in both cases: both the original author and "the Project" can do what they please with the code. Both have the right to relicense it under GPLv7 or BSD, or as a closed-source project. Which side retains the copyright is even less relevant than whether the assignment is done on real paper. Stepan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
