Why not create a perpetual license that allows the contributors to retain their own rights but allows you to use as you wish * or use as you and the rights holder agree to.
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From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
[mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org] On Behalf Of Fred Dirkse - OIC Group, Inc.
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 6:21 PM
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
Subject: [CNI-(C)] Mutal copyright question
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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