-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2017 07:44 PM, Andrey Tretyakov wrote:
> Regarding Pylons Contributors Agreement. I see it as it's against the > spirit of free software. I am ok with RPL and liberal licenses in > general, don't confuse me with GPL zealots, but signing rights > transfer to a corporate entity would be against my principles, unless > it is a non-commercial entity with open and transparent governing > process. That would be your choice. The contributor agreement leaves intact your rights to your own contributions (you assign a half interest in the copyright, not the whole thing), and allows you to use the entire work under a permissive license. The point of the half assignment is to allow for a relicensing of the work, should such be required, without having to find and get agreement from dozens / hundreds of contributors. > I am sure that PCA is a serious barrier preventing many people from > contributing to the Pyramid project. There is also related issue that > (c) Agendaless Consulting copyright notice is present on the > trypyramid.com website. Corporate copyright notice on a community > website is a really bad idea in my opinion. > > People mentioned that there was a discussion on transfer of all > copyright (if needed), branding and trademark (if any) to umbrella > non-commercial foundation. So what is your official stance on this ? > What is the current status of the transferral, if any is planned ? We have had a number of discussions of the issue over the years, including talks with the SFC. There is no plan currently in place: it would require setting up a Pylons-project-specific organization, which would depend on having community members devote non-trivial amounts of effort to create and sustain it. None of the partners at Agendaless oppose the creation of such an organization, but none of us has the bandwidth / interest to drive its creation, either. If the community does get such an organiztion created, Agendaless will be pleased to transfer its copyrights in the Pylons / repoze software to it, assuming that the organization's bylaws were reasonable (a promise that the software would continue to be available under a simliarly-permissive license would be the only requirement I can think of now). > I think (depending on laws) some form of agreement could be needed, > but is there any chance that transfer of rights will not be required > ? Contributions will continue to require assignment of half interest. Should the hypothetical organization come into being, all that would change would be the target of that assignment. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJZGHQhAAoJEPKpaDSJE9HY+6QP/0omevgkvY/xt/hb/mZj+TxA caKJ5wFbK1H0PKW2kkwGumdliER7b+UsoNhJg+gGG+sENs96FDVN0Ds5I2j7h/Ze 99BCMP0lhqbcq7jrdnbQKSa3BihOSb50u7/JVg2ivBM0otiTimd/vCUciVd2Z0Od bnfjLRttN+9Dk+Y2A6T0FTbuZeHzB7g7EuAmxFAEAGdng/znBz+R7Gs2Fo1P80p6 ZR7lA/CenddgqHy6UvEht7EJ4sgt0LvPBTTD2MqCl3vsZzt5VfW3WJ1DmgFHzpux OxBxhcRK1iE8jNgDbLdwQP5NW//8ssJSmyyTUcLGzRoXtCJsrDidKfobmB0GPn1d g0+qRdNLHCHxdYRbO70eMgWDXqrqYnxy7WZHq14ufcfp3LWAIp9qAv42tKwSU+yR 2TXcH2VQ5RRNO2FdknD/hf9JMjR8DfrrVhhv8kLgkdvbWc0Z/1wOpwr72LrMlr+t AJIIJZ2CISPxIv+ytx/nwC1Q3bsYjFkHfvVaI7g7SHBJXGIbYzvSchXoKb0DnwGP 4KdcAZZNUnWo0DOEzc5+08GHSWvQpL1yOCR4marmLkggpdeKsSf0B1FePQlKGTRQ tIZBYPcUA5u3StoNIJwZ4SiSUcxI1LP8taBglClBwqJZKWBBuoOL7eb7hYOYNiBZ CJIy80HQYgRamC3pKqXe =Zrlp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/of9s78%24s6v%241%40blaine.gmane.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
