Hello, I haven't followed thoroughly the thread, but there are many legal issues at stake with such decisions, for instance in some countries such as France, it is legally not possible to grant this kind of permission for future works; thus this agreement below would be legally void:
Le dimanche 15 janvier 2012 à 14:45 -0400, David Prévot a écrit : > ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— > > Subject: Permission to relicense my work on the Debian website > > I hereby give permission to relicense my work — which consist of > edition or translation of portions of text from one human language > to > another human language, that I have provided to the Debian website > or > that I will provide in the future — to any DFSG compatible license > as > chosen by the web team, and announced by the Debian project leader. > > ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Moreover, in practice, I hardly see what's the difference with a well-drafted copyright assignment. Maybe you'd be interested in reading what FSFE has drafted for free software projects: http://fsfe.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html The Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) is a copyright assignment that allows one entity to safeguard all of the code created for a project by consolidating copyright (or exclusive exploitation rights) to counteract copyright fragmentation. This enables projects to protect their legal maintainability by preserving the ability to relicense code and ensuring sufficient rights to enforce licences in court. The person assigning does not lose their rights to the code either, as the FLA gives back unlimited usage/single exploitation rights to the author. The FLA also applies a set of principles for the fiduciary. If they breach these principles, all grants and licenses made to them automatically expire. Benefeciaries of the FLA assign the copyright in their work, and in countries where assignments of the copyright in a work are impossible, they grant the fiduciary an exclusive license (see §1(1) for details). Therefore, the FLA is designed to work in both civil and common law countries. Best regards, Hugo -- Hugo Roy im: h...@jabber.fsfe.org French Coordinator mobile: +33.6 0874 1341 The Free Software Foundation Europe works to create general understanding and support for software freedom in politics, law, business and society. Become a Fellow http://www.fsfe.org/join La Free Software Foundation Europe œuvre à la compréhension et au soutien de la liberté logicielle en politique, en droit, en économie et en société. Rejoignez la Fellowship http://www.fsfe.org/join -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1326890752.3382.46.ca...@synclavier.lan
