On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:59:49PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:33 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > > > There will also be the possibility of assigning our copyrights to that > > > organization, which would make it easier to enforce the license > > > > Copyright assignment in other projects has been tricky, and it can't be > > done retroactively. It usually requires developers to submit paperwork - > > we don't really want that .... do we? > > > Fortunately, in order to enforce the license they don't really need > rights to all of it, or even most of it - just rights to substantial > portions of the useful stuff. Heck, Alexandre's contributions alone > could probably be enough code to cover virtually the entire project.
(IANAL... just AFAIK:) To enforce the licence one doesn't need any copyright (asignment) at the work at all. You just need to be appointed by (one of) the copyright holder(s) to enforce it. Jan
