Re: Re: cvs: CVSROOT / avail loginfo
| From: | Edward Z. Yang | Date: | Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:55:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: cvs: CVSROOT / avail loginfo | ||
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Dan Scott wrote:
> So an author can and should maintain copyright over the material they
> contribute, but they contribute it under a license that specifies the
> terms under which that material can be used (the PHP License, for this
> project) by others.
Well, in theory, at least. Many open source projects ask for copyright
to be assigned to them (GNU is one notable example) because it 1. makes
changing licensing terms easier (for better or for worse) and 2. it
makes it a lot easier to prosecute copyright violation (single entity
versus multiple entities that have to coordinate).
See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
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