On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Kay Hayen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Tanguy, > > >> Although you are free to sell this program according to the terms of >> the GPLv3, I would not like that, and this is why I chose this >> license, that should make most attempts of doing so non-viable. >> [or whatever similar text you may want to write] >> >> Since such a statement does not require anything, I think it should not >> render your program non-free, just programs suggesting that the user may >> thank the author by buying him a beer are free as long as this is a >> suggestion and not a requirement. > > > The interesting part is contribution copyright assignment. I actually do > _not_ want Nuitka to have to stay GPLv3 when it's "ready". Then I > _definitely_ want it to have another license, with "ASF2.0" being the > current front runner.
I'm not a fan of copyright assignment, and would like to find (if possible) a solution that gives you what you need without requiring it. Requiring copyright assignment allows you to "pull an Oracle." I mean no offense by that and I hope you understand my intent in saying that. Would it be possible to have, instead, a contributor agreement that allows contributors to retain copyright while at the same time granting you a non-transferable, non-revokable, exclusive right to relicense their contribution under the ASF2.0 license at a time of your choosing? This allows contributors to "know what they're getting into." It allows you to transition smoothly from GPLv3 to ASF2.0 when you feel the "time is right," while allowing contributors the comfort of retaining copyright to their code, knowing that they will not later face all their work being swallowed up as in, for example, OpenSolaris. This grant to you would be non-revokable (for your comfort) and non-transferrable (for the contributor's comfort). It would be exclusive to you as an agreement between you and the person submitting code to you. Is this sort of thing even workable? I'd be interested in the opinions d-l at large, as well. -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOEVnYtpjzzZaP3F7QfXPeDi6mONH9muh0ifnb=eoy4y20w...@mail.gmail.com
