[Shotwell] contribution copyright

[Adam Dingle]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:36 PM, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
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.


That's correct, though "The author" here is not just Yorba - it's everyone who's made non-trivial code contributions.



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

When Yorba started a few years ago, we chose the LGPL for our programs as a compromise between strong copyleft licenses such as the GPL and more permissive licenses such as the BSD license. Â Our usage of the LGPL for Shotwell is unlikely to change since we'd need to get permission from all past contributors in order to change it.

adam