On Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 11:14:10 PM UTC+8, Tres Seaver wrote: > > 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. > IANAA, does it mean I retain full rights of my copy of the commit (including right to relicense my copy) and Agendaless has the same rights but to the commit itself ?
> 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. > It is still unclear why would you need to change the license ? Many projects pick a license once and keep using it without any issues. The act of signing the agreement would just assure the non-revocable nature of the commit, and everybody would have peace of mind. > 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. > Why would it require pylons-specific org ? There are even 1-man projects under the umbrella of SFC for example > 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). > That is nice to hear 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. > But if there will be no umbrella foundation, it means the issue will never be fixed, which is very disappointing. The current situation promotes forking instead of contribution Andrey -- 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/83f8df06-7b1f-4d9a-a3f2-eb0c8c1355e1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
