Re: Re: UK Project Opportunity

Paul M Foster wrote: > 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. > snap - afaik he doesn't do this