[ros-kernel] Code Copyright Issues

[Steven Edwards]

I could live with that as long as the Foundation and the copyright
holder have a firm understanding in the NDA regarding lawsuits and how
the copyright holder must defend the work in question. 

The job of copyright is to defend you work. Its really hard to defend
something if you are hiding behind what you are trying to defend. The
Linux/SCO mess is a good example of this. Just having developed
something and calling it GPL does not count as a defence if you are not
there to defend you work. 

If the foundation becomes the target of a lawsuit to try and find who
you are, for example you worked at "SCO" and let little snipits of code
come in to ReactOS, what would be the differnce in this and you just
turning your copyright over to the foundation and the foundation
getting hit by "litigious bastards"

Note: I am not in favor of anyone turning code over to any central
copyright holder. I see it as a central point of failure. If to much
code is owned by the foundation and it get shutdown then what
happens?My problem is with anonymous works in ReactOS only.

Thanks
Steven

--- Vizzini <vizzini at plasmic.com> wrote:
> I think Steven proposed that it would be OK to be semi-anonymous; the
> NDA he refers to is an agreement by the foundation to not disclose
> the
> identity of the programmer.
> 
> This is all just in proposal land still, of course.



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