RE: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing?

Here's my sense of how they are different things:

The ICLA is not a copyright assignment of any kind.  It is only a license and your affirmation that 
you have the right to grant it.  

The OCA non-exclusively transfers a property right.  The license doesn't work that way.  My 
understanding is that differences include what can be sold/transferred and who can sue someone for 
infringement.

With regard to copyright, the Apache ICLA is very much like the license that the terms of use for 
the openoffice.org site assert that you are providing in making contributions on the site (without 
having entered into any OCA).  That is not a copyright assignment either.  (Copyright assignments 
*must* be made in writing in the United States.)

The ICLA also stipulates a grant of Patent License.  (So does the OCA. Not a transfer, a license.)

The ICLA also applies to contributions other than software.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Friedrich Strohmaier [mailto:damokles4-listen@bits-fritz.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 17:15
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing?

Hi Greg, *,

sorry, forgot to post links..

Friedrich Strohmaier schrieb:

> I pull this in a new thread, as it is basic for understanding the
> difference between OCA and ICLA.

> Greg Stein schrieb:

> [..]

> > Let's also not forget that neither TDF nor the ASF require copyright
> > assignment. The copyright remains with the contributor.

> Same thing with OCA. You don't/didn't "sell" your copy right instead
> it was shared.

see here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Joint_Copyright_Assignment
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Oracle_Contributor_Agreement
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#usinglicenses
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf

[..]

sorry for avoidable noise..

Gruß/regards
-- 
Friedrich
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