You can also revoke the copyright assignment at (almost) any time. On 19/08/2010 6:57 AM, Dickson, Mike (ISS Software) wrote: > There are loads of open source projects that are LGPL (in whole or part) and > that require a contributors agreement. Joomla, Alfresco, OpenChange, > Evolution, etc. It's a very common practice when a legal entity is the > corporate sponsor for the project. The only impairment here is the constant > bickering over useless details. Either you want to contribute or you don't. > If you do LL is the copyright holder and has every right to insist you sign a > contributors agreement in order to make code contributions so that they can > administer the project. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com > [mailto:opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Mike > Monkowski > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:52 PM > To: Henri Beauchamp > Cc: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com > Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement > > Henri Beauchamp wrote: >> SL is the ONLY so-called (but actually still not, obviously: a Canada-Dry >> LGPL, perhaps ?) LGPL Open Source project requiring a License agreement >> from its contributors !!! This makes strictly no sense and is a clear >> impairement. >> >> I'd also be curious to know any other of your "good and valid reasons"... > I, obviously, am not in a position to speak for Linden Lab, but let me > offer my opinion. This project is somewhat different from most LGPL > projects in that if there is no CA, it places Linden in the position of > being sued for copyright infringement if someone contributes plagiarized > code. Most LGPL projects don't have a corporate owner with money worth > suing for. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges >
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