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An issue is copyright ownership. Even if a contributor assigns copyright, it is ineffective if they didn't hold copyright. This opens the project to legal peril
by hyperpallium 7y ago
An issue is copyright ownership. Even if a contributor assigns copyright, it is ineffective if they didn't hold copyright. This opens the project to legal peril.
- onion2k 7y agoThat sounds reasonable except Google could write some boilerplate for maintainers to include in a project's README.md, contributing.md or license file that explicitly states they won't accept community contributions because copyright would be an issue, and they don't appear to have done anything like that.
- hyperpallium 7y agoYeah, it's just "an" issue, perhaps contributing to their attitude.