Then don't do it? You still have the choice: you don't have to be ripped off if you don't want to.
Cheers On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was under the impression that the LGPL is perfectly suitable for > proprietary applications. I don't want to sound like a greedy > egomaniac, but giving code I intend to be open source to be used under a > proprietary license without me getting paid sounds like a rip-off. > > > On 18/04/12 03:57, Scott Aron Bloom wrote: > > Yes you did.. > > > > Otherwise, they would have to keep a separate branch, one for opensource > one for commercial. > > > > Anything you submit can be incorporated in both. > > > > Scott > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org [mailto: > interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of > Nikos Chantziaras > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:55 PM > > To: interest@qt-project.org > > Subject: [Interest] Contributor agreement rundown > > > > I went to register for a Gerrit account. There I saw that I must agree > to a "contributor agreement". It's very legalese, so I'm not sure if it > means what I think it means: Nokia can transform open source code I > contribute into non-open code? > > > > "Licensor hereby grants, in exchange for good and valuable > consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, > to Nokia a sublicensable, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, > royalty-free and fully paid-up copyright and trade secret license to > reproduce, adapt, translate, modify, and prepare derivative works of, > publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, make available and > distribute Licensor Contribution(s) and any derivative works thereof under > license terms of Nokia’s choosing including any Open Source Software > license." > > > > The beef is the phrase "under license terms of Nokia’s choosing", which > can be an open license, but is not required to. > > > > Did I understand that correctly? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > -- Miha W.
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