Re: Mutal copyright question

I don't see how a license from the developer wouldn't get you what you need, while giving the developer the flexibility to do what (s)he needs. Your use is the easier to describe, so a license to you is more practical than an assignment to you with a grantback of a license to the developer.

Vance

On 9/12/05, Fred Dirkse - OIC Group, Inc. <fred[_at_]oicgroup.net> wrote:
>
> 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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Vance R. Koven
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