Canonical copyright assignment policy ’same as others’ (ITWire)
| January 31st, 2010
ITWire talks
with Mark Shuttleworth about copyright assignment policies. "The
most common complaint I've heard is 'why can't a company accept my patches
to them under the same licence that they give me the original code?' But
that suggests that the two contributions are equal, when they really are
not. One party contributes a whole working system, with a commitment to
continue to do maintenance on it, the other contributes a patch which is
(generally) of no value without the rest of the codebase."