On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:47:19AM -0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > >I've no interest in sending patches to open-vm-tools as a project > >because VMware require that you sign a contributors agreement. > >This gives VMWare joint copyright assignment allowing them to use > >all contributed code in non-open source projects. No thanks. > > > IANAL, but can VMware even require that for GPL,LGPL licensed code? > I'd think not..? That's the whole point of requiring contributors to give them copyright over submissions. If you are copyright owner you can change license terms to whatever you like any time you like. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
