[Shotwell] contribution copyright

[Camilo Polymeris]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Xavi <xavierviader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> it helps a bit but no clear yet... who owns, the copyright, of code I gave?
>  Yorba or even giving it it's going to mine? So yorba is made by several
> copyrights?

Hello Xavier,

first, I don't work for yorba and I am not a lawyer, so take this with
a grain of salt, but: the yorba coding guidelines[1] ask you to put a
file header declaring copyright to the yorba foundation in all source
files you submit, which, I guess could be understood as an implicit
copyright assignment. On the other hand, I have contributed a little
code and they haven't asked me to sign either a formal contributor
license agreement (CLA) or to explicitely assign copyright to Yorba,
like e.g. the FSF does.
Again, IANAL, but I understand that even if there was a CLA you'd
still remain the owner of the copyright, but would be agreeing to a
worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, etc... license to distribute
your code.

Regards,
Camilo

[1] http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/yorba/wiki/CodingConventions