Re: [tdf-discuss] [FAQ] new entries (here: CA/JCA/SCA)

["Charles-H. Schulz" <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>]

Andrea, Michael,


Le Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:43 +0100,
Andrea Pescetti <pescetti@openoffice.org> a écrit :

> On 03/11/2010 Michael Meeks wrote:
> > I wrote a huge screed on the subject here:
> > http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html
> > ... If the argument is that there is some negotiation with Oracle
> > that this makes possible - then, I have to wonder why Oracle is
> > happy to ship millions of lines of Mozilla code (under the MPL)
> > that they can never own as part of the product.
> 
> Yes, more or less that would be my argument. Or, to use your own words
> (from your article): "If you are faced with aggression from a
> copyright owner, turn their asymmetry against them: ask them to
> accept code under the same terms they provide to others. ... Failing
> that, just soft-fork the project, a-la MariaDB - paradoxically you
> may want to collect copyright assignment yourself to be able to
> affect an eventual reconciliation".
> 
> What I was hoping was that the Document Foundation would act as a
> "trade union" of developers, and be delegated rights on their code to
> become a powerful stakeholder in discussing OpenOffice.org and
> derivatives. I think I have already repeated enough times that by
> this I do NOT mean that I expect/wish that the Document Foundation
> gives all the rights to Oracle, of course. But I would expect that,
> with a copyright agreement in place, it could get more recognition in
> a possible reconciliation phase than what it can get by merely
> relying on moral suasion.

What do you think of this idea?
http://blog.nooku.org/2010/11/nooku-contributor-agreement/
(It does not involve copyright). 

-- 
Charles-H. Schulz
Membre du Comité exécutif
The Document Foundation.

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