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Must be copyright phpBB? Um...no. On 8/18/05, Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> wrote:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=316489
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
On 18-Aug-05, at 7:32 AM, Earl Dunovant wrote:
Must be copyright phpBB?
Um...no.
Just going to quote the relevant section, because I skimmed the list and didn't notice that:
All original work submitted must be Copyright phpBB Group. We cannot and will not accept material submitted under your own copyright/s. If you need to include (small sections of) copyrighted third party material licenced under the LGPL or GPL you may of course do so but must include an appropriate copyright. You must not include any non-L/GPL material in your contribution. We will refuse any contributions containing third party material which fail to recognise that material. Unless fundamentally required and agreed with by us your contributions should be largely your own work and not that of others (irrespective of including appropriate copyright notices).
I just want to point out that this is a very common thing. If the copyright is not assigned to a single entity (remember, copyright =! licensing, which is still GPL), then it becomes very difficult to take legal action. Example being, only the copyright owner can sue. If someone violated the GPL on Drupal, who would sue? Everyone that has ever committed something. This is one of the very good reasons for a project to form a foundation and ensure that copyright is assigned to that entity.
On 8/18/05, Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> wrote:
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Boris Mann wrote:
All original work submitted must be Copyright phpBB Group. We cannot and will not accept material submitted under your own copyright/s. If you need to include (small sections of) copyrighted third party material licenced under the LGPL or GPL you may of course do so but must include an appropriate copyright. You must not include any non-L/GPL material in your contribution. We will refuse any contributions containing third party material which fail to recognise that material. Unless fundamentally required and agreed with by us your contributions should be largely your own work and not that of others (irrespective of including appropriate copyright notices).
I just want to point out that this is a very common thing. If the copyright is not assigned to a single entity (remember, copyright =! licensing, which is still GPL), then it becomes very difficult to take legal action.
I just want to point out that you cannot assing a copyright to anybody but the creator in some countries. Cheers, Gerhard
Maybe I think too corporately, but before I gave away the copyright to my code I'd need a perpetual license to use the code as I see fit. As you say, copyright isn't licensing and I can easily see cases where a client would want something similar but proprietary. That's the only objection I have. On 8/18/05, Boris Mann <borismann@gmail.com> wrote:
I just want to point out that this is a very common thing. If the copyright is not assigned to a single entity (remember, copyright =! licensing, which is still GPL), then it becomes very difficult to take legal action.
Hi everybody, This is the second pretty interessant link that Dries send us this week and we should get a place to discuss about this or at least get the link stored. Also, retaking the point of David Angier (http://www.angier.co.uk/david/2005-08-14-drupal-experiences), there might have a lot of good ideas there to improve Drupal user experience. I'm not a Drupal talented dev, and I think that these points are known and would be certainly addressed in the future, but archiving these topics would help for future UI consideration, or other points, don't you think ? In the websites I visit, I have a look from times to times at the blog of Mattew Mecham, lead dev of IPB. Yes there's no GPL inside but I think that the UI he made are pretty and smart. Have a look at some of the last things he made, IMHO, there's some good ideas there. http://blog.mattmecham.com Regards Nicolas
Development rights without pay -- Drupal has this already. People write stuff, the stuff gets reviewed, and then the stuff gets patched onto other stuff. And no one gets paid, which is what made Google's SoC different. What else are we to learn from phpBB? Nic On Aug 18, 2005, at 3:40 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
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