Stefano Zacchiroli <lea...@debian.org> writes: > As it has been requested by Debian contributors, I'd like to know if SPI > offers the possibility, to contributors of affiliated projects, to > transfer copyright (or specific rights) to SPI. If yes: how?
The answer should be yes, but I don't recall any specific incidents in which SPI formally accepted transfer of copyright from an individual. As a result, I think we would need to speak to our SFLC friends about exactly what form such a contribution agreement should take and what record keeping we need to engage in. Frankly, I've never been a fan of copyright assignment. While I'm sure there are cases in which it makes sense for someone to want to assign their copyrights to SPI, I would want to have a per-incident discussion with the individual(s) in question before we blindly start accepting such assignments, to be sure the best interests of the Free Software community are actually being served by such assignment. Bdale
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