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A license controls what OTHERS can do with your source. You, the copyright holder, can do anything you want.
by mperham 3y ago
A license controls what OTHERS can do with your source. You, the copyright holder, can do anything you want.
- asymmetric 3y agoThanks, I stand corrected. How does this play with third-party contributions? Others might be the copyright-holders of a sub-section of the code.
- JimDabell 3y agoYou ask contributors to sign a copyright assignment before accepting their changes.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- duckmysick 3y agoProjects can have a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). It gives the owner of the project a right to republish (or copyright) the contributions. You can't contribute to the project without signing it.
- m4rtink 3y agoThis might also prevent a lot of people from contributing due to the added paperwork.