It sounds like a license is what you need, but you
really need to seek advice from someone who can get
all the facts and discuss all of the consequences with
you. So, bite the bullet and hire an attorney to draft
a form license that meets your needs and most of your
contributors demands and use the same license for
every transaction. That reduces it to a one time cost
instead of hiring an attorney to draft a new license
for each transaction.
> Greetings all.
> My company has a software program we have released
> open source. Any
> open source contributions we receive that are to be
> integrated into the
> main system, we require copyright be assigned to us.
> There are several
> developers who have good contributions to offer, but
> do not want to
> assign copyright to us because they have internal or
> otherwise
> proprietary usage for the same code and don't want
> to "give up" rights
> to it. The only reason I want copyright is to
> eliminate any future
> issues regarding their contributions to the
> software...I could care less
> what they do with the exact same code on their
> end...I just need to know
> that I have full control of it in my system.
> I proposed that they simply assign us copyright for
> what they give us,
> and they keep the same code and copyright also.
> This has raised some
> questions regarding the full legalities of this.
> Basically the question is:
> If I write a piece of code, can I give that code to
> someone else along
> with copyright on it for them to do whatever they
> please with, as well
> as maintain copyright on it myself and do whatever I
> please with it?
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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