[Shotwell] contribution copyright

[oliver]

AFAIK shotwell is under LGPL.

The author has the copyright, but not an exclusive one,
because of the LGPL.

So it's copyright by the author but copyleft via LGPL.

The author can reuse it's code elsewhere, but
after publishing under (L)GPL is not allowed to disallow
others to redistribute it.


(I wonder why it's LGPL and not GPL, which is the one, normally used
for programs (and LGPL for libraries.)


Ciao,
   Oliver


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:00:45AM +0200, Xavi Viader wrote:
> 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
> >
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