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LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownershipLPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownershipPosted Nov 10, 2010 19:38 UTC (Wed) by khc (subscriber, #45209)Parent article: LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership
What's the difference between copyright assignment and something like BSD?
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LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 10, 2010 19:42 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
The former is more complex making lawyers happy (and busy)
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 10, 2010 19:48 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
no seriously. bsd gives any party equal rights to the code. ca gives only the priviledged party said rights. Imagine Mysql had been under the bsd rather than CA. The former owner would now have the right to still use it in any way he wants. Now the copyright rests with oracle and he whines, err, complains that he can't use his code anymore. That's quite a difference.
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 18, 2010 14:11 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
Another difference would be that with BSD, MySQL wouldn't have been bought for 1 billion..
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