On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But if there were a contributor agreement I >> could give the Sage project permission to copy / use my code under its >> license without explicitly putting my name on it > > The problem here is very simple: which legal entity would be on the > opposite side of such a CA? There is no standalone-NPO behind SageMath > ... and placing a related organization like the University of > Washington behind it, just begs for introducing many issues :-)
I didn't know there wasn't one. I thought maybe there was, just as there is also SageMath, Inc. (and yes I'm aware of the strife over the naming of that and am not looking to revisit it :) I sort of blithely assumed there was also a SageMath Org. behind, well, sagemath.org :) > PS: years ago I had the idea to start a small npo for sagemath over > here, but that kind of never worked out (i.e. you require a bunch of > dedicated people to actually run this, etc.) IIUC that's partly what the NumFOCUS [1] organization exists for--it bears the overhead of running an NPO that projects (like Sage, though not currently including) can use for legal and fundraising purposes. I'm not saying Sage should necessarily join NumFOCUS--that's above my pay grade. Just saying if there were interest in such a thing it would be one place to look. Anyways, as it's been pointed out (which I did know) one doesn't need to explicitly add a copyright notice to any work they create. I just wasn't sure if it was for some reason *necessary* to include the copyright notice as part of the GPL notice. If not then I'll just omit it (the copyright notice, not the GPL) and I wash my hands of it :) Best, Erik [1] http://www.numfocus.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
