[Vtigercrm-developers] Comitter access forms?

[Matthew Brichacek]

I don't have any problems with point "a" but I won't assign my
copyrights to vtiger unless there is a foundation of some kind that
controls this and a democratic voting process that allows community
members to sit on the board.  We've all seen it before, commercial
entities get greedy (or their VC's) and if they have full copyrights
over the project you can expect it to get dual licensed and then all
kinds of bad things will follow.  If you want examples, look no further
than mambo, asterisk or sugar.

Matt

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 08:10 -0800, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> 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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