[Shotwell] contribution copyright

[Xavi Viader]

Hi Camilo,
thanks for your answer, I guess you are right, the copyright header would
be an implicit a copyright assignment.

I'm not in favour about giving rights or not, I'm just investigating how it
works. It was a surprise, for me, to know how FSF manage copyright.

Any yorba confirmation?

Xavi

2012/4/23 Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris at gmail.com>

> 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
>