[Vtigercrm-developers] Comitter access forms?

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Does anyone have experience with copyright-assignment documentation of
committer access?

I think we can be loose about signed hardcopy, but perhaps there's some benefit
to having a simple text emailed in by committers that asserts that we
individually:

a) are free from contractual restrictions that prevent us from contributing to
an OSS project.

b) grant copyright on committed work to this repository to vtiger-the-company

In return for the volunteers making it easy to clear copyright, perhaps
vtiger-the-company can agree to some plan to assign their copyright to a
board-directed foundation of the same name at some future date.

Any foundation plan would only be implemented if the community grows to a size
and commercial importance that it justifies the effort. If the community only
acts as volunteer maintainers for existing releases, a foundation is less
necessary.

vtiger-the-company could be granted by the board certain elevated usage rights
to the trademarks, etc, so they'd still be the 'commercial face' of a larger
vtiger community.

Plone did this some time ago, and now most of the original contributors are
involved in commercial consultancies specializing in Plone development.

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