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..? You can require copyright assignments for any project (any project protected by copyright at any rate). The FSF, for example, routinely asks for copyright assignments for all of their projects - it's just that we trust the FSF a lot more than some random closed-source company. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
