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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwareMark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwarePosted May 17, 2011 17:54 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by apolinsky Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
I think describing "I'm willing to give you a significant body of code that I've written and which makes your software better, but I'm not willing to give you a copyright grant" as ungenerous is pretty obnoxious.
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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software Posted May 18, 2011 8:09 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
> I think describing "I'm willing to give you a significant body of code that I've written and which makes your software better, but I'm not willing to give you a copyright grant" as ungenerous is pretty obnoxious.
Questions of obnoxiousness aside, copyright assignment probably does discourage people from making "significant" contributions to projects.
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