If we also feel that the contribution is significant, we can of course make some special arrangement if that is necessary. However, and that is the main point, there has to be an arrangement. CVS write access gives you the ability to commit code for which there is no special arrangement, and that's why we have the blanket policy which applies to all such code.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-09-11 18:41: Subject: Re: IDA's policy on Pike contributions
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:30:02PM -0400, Martin Nilsson (ja till euro, nej till cent) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
And we don't want to be in a "SCO vs. the world" situation one day.
What is wrong if I keep the copyright but license the code under GPL/MPL/LGPL? That is the problem of SCO, btw - since they distributed Linux they cannot claim that this was illegal.
I only want to be sure that I still can use my code as I wish, where I wish and under conditions that I wish; and I want to be credited as the author if my contribution is significant. If I license the code to IDA, I give them right to do whatever they want, but I don't want to give them right to claim that this is _their own_ code. That's all.
Regards, /Al
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