The Evolution Copyright Assignment Form (Was: pdf

[Aaron Weber <aweber novell com>]

Havoc, Rob, et al:
  You can find the Evolution copyright assignment form and other
information about it here:
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/copyright.html
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/copyright_form.pdf

We'll be moving it to forge.novell.com some time very soon, and changing
"Ximian" to "Novell," but it's basically the same for Ximian as for
Novell.

In summary, (note I'm not a lawyer or an approved copyright voice from
Novell, etc.) it's "you let us use it as though we thought it up, you
still get to use it since you did think it up, and we promise to always
license it under the GPL or another approved license, even if we also
make some sort of proprietary extension like Connector."

a.

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:11 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:18, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
> > 
> > > What I'd worry about more is the asymmetric assignment situation for say
> > > OO.org (and I think but I'm not sure for Evolution), where one company has
> > > the exclusive right to create proprietary versions or link in proprietary
> > > code. Basically we're talking about a GPL loophole.
> > 
> > > I do support including Evolution in 2.8, however to the extent I'd worry
> > > about copyright assignment this is the issue I would raise.
> > 
> > Is that really a huge problem for the community in general, with Evolution?
> > 
> 
> Only the community can answer that, I don't know. I'm not even sure what
> the Evo copyright assignment says (though I think Red Hat has signed
> it).
> 
> It really comes down to people's personal feelings about free software
> and how they want their code to be used.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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