On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 09:14:12AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > If you are contributing to copyleft projects, it is important to have > diverse copyright holders to prevent converting projects to > proprietary licenses. FWIW, we are far from having consensus on this aspect in the free software world at large. For many, copyright assignments to trusted, transparent, and non-profits entities is a good thing, because: 1/ it makes licensing enforcements easier in court, and 2/ allow to switch between free software licenses (or even only decide whether you want to move to an "or later" version of a license or not) downstream even in case of dramatic events like the death of copyright holders. This is the reason why entities like FSF and KDE e.V. offer the possibility of centralizing copyright ownership. In essence: YMMV. But it seems to me that we are by no mean near a point where, in the public debate on FOSS policies, it is well established whether this specific kind of copyright assignment is "good" or "bad". Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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