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So if they accept contributions from the community does the copyright on those get reassigned to mattermost?
by swiley 7y ago
So if they accept contributions from the community does the copyright on those get reassigned to mattermost?
- driverdan 7y agoNo, that's not how copyright works.
- johncolanduoni 7y agoThere are software projects that use/require copyright assignment (notably many GNU projects require assignment to the FSF).
- bildung 7y agoYes but in these situation the copyright assignment is a separate contract underwritten by the person committing. What (I think) driverdan means is that an OSS licence legally cannot substitute this separate contract - one cannot automatically assign one's own copyright to another entity by following an OSS licence.
- jsty 7y agoNo, it's a "grant to Mattermost and to recipients of software distributed by Mattermost a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works." https://www.mattermost.org/mattermost-contributor-agreement/ https://www.mattermost.org/mattermost-contributor-agreement/ https://spinpunch.wufoo.com/forms/r3z8zqm0ew6pcc https://spinpunch.wufoo.com/forms/r3z8zqm0ew6pcc