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Copyright Assignment MehCopyright Assignment MehPosted Nov 10, 2010 17:36 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: Copyright Assignment Meh by kripkenstein Parent article: LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership
>I care that they *can* get all those freedoms for that source code - they might need to get it from somewhere else though
They can get all of those freedoms if the code is released under a BSD license, so why choose the GPL in the first place if you don't care about the copyleft terms that the GPL adds?
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Copyright Assignment Meh Posted Nov 10, 2010 18:42 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Indeed even has contributors to a GPL or proprietary licensed codebase, as an individual contributor you can offer your contributions under a more liberal license such as BSD and a project should be able to accept them even if they don't require copyright assignment. If your personal politics are such that the terms of the GPL( or proprietary licensing) are too restrictive for you, then you are still free to offer your original work under a more expansive license such as the BSD and a GPL( or proprietary) project can consume those contributions without issue even in situations where they later feel a re-license is necessary. BSD licensed contributions should present no insurmountable problems even in a re-licensing situation.
-jef
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