FLA

Chris Schlaeger kde-policies@mail.kde.org
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:38:27 +0100


You should explain the benefits you see in doing so. In my opinion the KDE 
Project is _much_ safer with a widely distributed copyright. Assigning all 
copyrights to a single entity makes us weaker and more prone to an attack 
than stronger.

Chris

On Thursday 06 February 2003 00:08, Marc Mutz wrote:
> [cc'ing Bernhard Reiter as the FSFE representative I know best in case
> questions come up that I can't answer ;-)]
>
> Hi!
>
> Ok, I've waited for this to be released publicly:
>   http://fsfeurope.org/projects/fla/
> So we now have two ways to "assign copyright" to KDE e.V.: One for the
> Copyright model, and one for the Droit d'Auteur model.
>
> I propose that KDE e.V. releases contracts based on the FSF Copyright
> assignment and the FSFE FLA with the purpose of allowing KDE developers
> to assign their rights to the KDE e.V. for legal protection and
> enforcement of the licenses used, or - failing KDE e.V.'s willingness
> to protect KDE developers' code in this way - ask FSF(E) to handle it
> for them.
>
> Thanks for listening,
> Marc

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