Le Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > I'm under the *impression* that an important amount of people objecting > copyright assignments do so to avoid the risk that their contributions > get re-licensed under terms that go against their moral beliefs about > software freedom. That is why I won't sign a copyright assignment to a > for-profit entity.
Hi Stefano, in my understanding, there is still a big difference between copyright assignment and re-licensing, even if we trust the license to be free. - In the case of assignment, the author has to comply with the license chosen by SPI. - In the case of re-licensing, the author can still use his work under the license he prefers. Imagine for example that I write for the Debian Med project's pages a short explanation of what ‘biological sequence alignment’ means. In that case, I would like to keep the option to re-use my work freely. However, if the website were copylefted, and if I would transfer my copyright, this would restrict my possibilities to re-use my own work. For that reason, I think that copyright assignment and choice of license can not be separated. Which is another good reason to go for relicensing or copyright disclaiming instead. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120109013219.ga18...@merveille.plessy.net
