> On Nov 26, 12:44 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 25, 10:38 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> root wrote: >>>> Standard industry practice on half a million open source projects >>>> does not include an "I have signed over my copyright on this >>>> particular >>>> patch" button. A general copyright judgement making the current >>>> practice >>>> illegal would wipe out the free software movement overnight >>>> (except for >>>> the FSF work, but they have paid lawyers). >> >>> To my understanding, David is not asking people to sign over their >>> copyright, only for the people to explicitly license their >>> contribution >>> (but retain copyright). >> >> Yes, that is the exact intention, i.e. we do not want the copyright >> of >> the Sage library to be held by some legal body, but that it remains >> with the original author. The goal here is to implement a cleaner >> process so that if we ever have to deal a legal issue we have >> everything in writing. I cannot see how anyone could misunderstand >> the >> license of the Sage library, but the law is not about obvious >> correctness, but the letter and as we have all seen the current >> Amercian legal system is a little different than one would expect, >> i.e. the whole set of SCO lawsuits which were merit less from the get >> go but dragged on to this day in court. >>
My only real concern is the specific statement about GPL V2 (or later) in what David wrote. While my test suite I'm licensing under BSD (which is stated at the top of each .sage file), I'm not a fan of GPL V3, so I'd likely license any other code under GPL V2, not GPL V2 (or later). It's my understanding that there already is code as part of Sage that's licensed that way. Cheers, Tim. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
