BSD license vs. copyright assignment
BSD license vs. copyright assignment
Posted Jan 2, 2010 23:11 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: BSD license vs. copyright assignment by foom
Parent article: The ongoing MySQL campaign
Overtime, Drizzle could move towards essentially being a permissively
licensed project in the longer run and while that might leave open the
possibility of proprietary forks, it doesn't create a monopoly like
copyright assignment does. The catch in the Drizzle project however is that
Sun employees are NOT licensing their contributions under the BSD. So they
have different rules depending on whether or not you are employee of Sun or
not. That's bad.
licensed project in the longer run and while that might leave open the
possibility of proprietary forks, it doesn't create a monopoly like
copyright assignment does. The catch in the Drizzle project however is that
Sun employees are NOT licensing their contributions under the BSD. So they
have different rules depending on whether or not you are employee of Sun or
not. That's bad.
Unfortunately Sun seems to be doing it worse on all the Sun managed
projects including Openoffice.org, OpenJDK etc where they demand copyright
assignment and it hurts them and the project they manage pretty badly.
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