If you are releasing with the restriction that your company owns
copyright, I can't imagine what Open Source license you may be using!
I agree, though, that you should probably consider a license arrangement rather than assignment.
Michael R. Graham
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From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
[mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org] On Behalf Of John P. McNeill
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:50 PM
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Mutal copyright question
Rather than use an assignment you can use a license.
-----Original Message-----
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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