Say, I wrote a module for Pike, it gets into "official" distribution, and basically IDA's claim means that this modules is now _their_, not mine.
The module doesn't "get" into the official districution. You would have to put it there yourself, after agreeing to the terms of CVS access. And then the module is owned by IDA, which IDA in turn distribute under MPL, GPL and LGPL. I can't honestly think of a single scenario when this isn't enough.
/ Martin Nilsson (ja till euro, nej till cent)
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2003-09-11 16:25: Subject: Re: IDA's policy on Pike contributions
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:58:58PM +0200, Martin Baehr wrote:
quote: signing the assignment does not stop you from distributing the program yourself--as long as you do so under the GNU terms
Exactly. But what if I want to use my contribution (which is by itself might be useful) somewhere else? I am not talking about work as a whole (program _and_ my contribution), I am talking about my contribution _only_.
Say, I wrote a module for Pike, it gets into "official" distribution, and basically IDA's claim means that this modules is now _their_, not mine.
But by itself, I can use this module (or at least its parts) without distributing (or even using) Pike, and (say) place restrictions on it's distribution etc.
Regards, /Al
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