Re: Re: UK Project Opportunity

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:38:36AM +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: <snip> > but if it turns out he's truely leeching on the work of others (by for > instance requiring authors to give him (near-)free exclusive rights or > something), then i'd have to switch sides, and say that authors need > to be warned of such practices. They should at least retain the full > rights to their work and be able to quickly and permanently remove > their work from a site like phpclasses.org, including the removal of > individual files. Yeah, I have a real beef with copyright-assignment, like what the GNU Project insists upon. If I built a program, I get to keep the copyright and determine the license. I feel the opposite way about patches. If you submit a patch to my sourceforge project, it's copyrighted by me. I don't make money off the project and I don't want to fight with you later about the code. And if I submit a patch to your project, you're free to do as you like with the code and its copyright. By the way, I am *not* saying Manuel does this. I'm just commenting on Rene's post. Paul -- Paul M. Foster