Canonical copyright assignment policy 'same as others' (ITWire)

ITWire talks with Mark Shuttleworth about copyright assignment policies. "The most common complaint I've heard is 'why can't a company accept my patches to them under the same licence that they give me the original code?' But that suggests that the two contributions are equal, when they really are not. One party contributes a whole working system, with a commitment to continue to do maintenance on it, the other contributes a patch which is (generally) of no value without the rest of the codebase."

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