Update on Software Freedom Law Center work

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Fri Mar 31 19:59:49 CST 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:33 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > There will also be the possibility of assigning our copyrights to that
> > organization, which would make it easier to enforce the license
> 
> Copyright assignment in other projects has been tricky, and it can't be 
> done retroactively. It usually requires developers to submit paperwork - 
> we don't really want that .... do we?
> 
Fortunately, in order to enforce the license they don't really need
rights to all of it, or even most of it - just rights to substantial
portions of the useful stuff.  Heck, Alexandre's contributions alone
could probably be enough code to cover virtually the entire project.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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