If I undesrtand this right, it basically means that I can't use my code anymore as I wish (and lose my copyright), once it is officially accepted and used in Pike.
In worst case, you can still use it under the MPL/GPL/LGPL like anyone else of course. It doesn't seem to say that the copyright has to be exclusive though. So i think shared copyright is ok, i.e. you keep copyright _and_ assign it to IDA, so that both may use it as they wish.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-09-11 06:54: Subject: IDA's policy on Pike contributions
Hi,
I am not quite sure that this list is right place to ask, but anyway... There is following policy (at http://pike.ida.liu.se/development/cvs/policies.xml):
---snip--- Pike copyrights - we consider all contributions to Pike donations and _claim copyright_ for the entire Pike repository. This also means that IDA will have full power to take _legal actions_ against anyone who would actually manage to break the license. ---snip---
If I undesrtand this right, it basically means that I can't use my code anymore as I wish (and lose my copyright), once it is officially accepted and used in Pike.
With policy like this no wonder that contributions from the community are so small...
Regards, /Al
/ Brevbäraren