On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:34 +0900, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM, mn <mneri2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > new on here and not a tech guy, wanted to know if a company or > > programmer who uses Django can claim they own the code? > > Firstly, IANAL, etc. > > There are at least three blocks of code under discussion here. > > Firstly, there is the code that comprises Django itself. Django's code > is licensed under the BSD license [1]. The copyright is held by the > Django Software Foundation.
*cough* No. The DSF has a license to release/use, etc the code from people who've signed the Licensing Agreement (and normal rights through BSD licensing otherwise) and they might have a copyright on the aggregate work -- it's never been clear to me what the boundaries are for that in the US law that apply to the DSF in the US. However, the code copyright is held by the individual contributors -- you, me, a couple of hundred other people. I know I haven't signed over any copyright rights to the DSF for my Django contributions, for example. I know where you're going with that post and I agree with it, but that particular point is a hot-button issue for me. Licensing != copyright assignment. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
