SVN access (was: gns2shp (Re: Extension hacking))

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 04:22:47 schrieb Anthony Lenton:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Bernhard Reiter
>
> <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
> > one more thing occurred to me:
> > We would like the keep the copyright of Thuban together, so we can
> > maintain legal maintainability. For the time being it would be nice if
> > you could assign your copyright to Intevation GmbH.
> > (In the future we'll hope to use the Fiduciary services of the FSFE for
> > Thuban.)
> >
> > We continue with GNU GPLv2 for now, but v3 or GNU LGPL are also possible
> > future options.
> >
> > To keep it simple right now, an information signed email to the list
> > would be sufficient to document your will. :)
>
> Sure, I can put something together.  I'm aware that the wording is
> sometimes critical with these things, and I haven't got an fsf
> copyright assignment contract to use as a model, would it be better to
> look for one?

No, I think something informal is okay for now to put your intentions on the 
record. The real solution then is to use the 
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html.

> Also, Except is my own company, should I also send a disclaimer from
> my employer?  I code for Thuban in my own time anyway :)

From whoever has the copyright, if there is any doubt that you would have the 
copyrights, a signed email from your employer would be helpful, just saying 
that you have the exclusive copyrights for your own work.

Thanks a lot!
Bernhard

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