Chris Cannam wrote:
> I don't know whether you can reassign copyright in
> Germany
No, you can't.
> I assume there are substantial reasons not to license the library under
> the LGPL, such as the fact that a commercial rival could then use it in
> their own proprietary products.
One could think about releasing substantial additions created by the Open Source
Community under the LGPL. Julian would then be able to sell his code using a
commercial license and could still use the additions and Open Source developers
would not have to reassign copyrights.
An alternative might be to release that additional code using dual licensing:
GPL and LGPL.
The main practical problem would be the mixture of GPL and LGPL code.
> One practical idea might be to suggest that authors of big contributions
> could (as an alternative to assigning copyright) retain their copyright
> but license it under a very permissive licence such as the BSD one.
Both of us obviously had the same idea.
Cheers,
Andreas
Received on Thu Apr 28 20:15:09 2005
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