-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Angela Byron schrieb:
On 8-Sep-07, at 5:51 AM, Thomas Barregren wrote:
I am not completely convinced that it is a "physically impossibility". After all, it is a limited number of people who have committed code to the core. I suppose most of them are still members of Drupal.org, and hence possible to get in contact with. Why not try? Likely, a vast majority of all core contributors will accept a "FOSS Exception" and possible also a "Linked Under Controlled Interface Exception" for a "Module Programming Interface" (e.g. hooks and some utility functions).
Interesting. So the act of committing code transfers authorship? My
No, no, no, and no. This does not happen. I think Thomas doesn't know how Drupal development works, which made him use the term "core committer". I hereby state that for none of the patches not written by me that I've committed to core or contrib I accept transfer of copyright or authorship (the latter is actually impossible under German law) of the code.
offering up code and saying, "Please commit this to core" is synonymous with "I hereby abandon all rights I have as the author of this code, and trust that the core committers will not someday do something silly with it?"
That's something I didn't know before. It was my understanding that copyright was retained by each individual who has contributed code to the project, regardless of who actually pulled the "commit" trigger.
That is my understanding too. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG4rpyfg6TFvELooQRAgbGAJ4nE1FCxwsXHqB0dwsGDd2cDwfrzQCbBDhQ PnHmlBl6GL1cy2xqf2vTH7A= =2QNh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----