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On 01/14/2014 01:35 PM, Colin McNamara wrote:
> Yes, you can both announce copyright via a method, such as a file in a 
> directory, or at the top of each individual file.
>
> For reference, here is a great presentation from Rowan Wilson at 
> Oxford - 
> http://www.slideshare.net/crmwilson/copyright-in-software-and-open-source-licensing
>
> Again, I'm not a lawyer. I've just a guy who loves getting people to 
> contribute code, and who has to manage that balance of code 
> contribution combined with protection of intellectual property rights 
> at work.

Yes, that's pretty much what I'm interested in. And when we have 
practices that 1) are shown, even anecdotally, to discourage 
contribution and 2) don't actually contribute to the legal protection of 
copyright, shouldn't we eschew them?

That presentation doesn't suggest putting copyright statements in files. 
It suggests having contributor license agreements and tracking those 
contributions via revision control. We do those things.

If companies are genuinely concerned about protecting their copyright on 
Open Source contributions, then they might fundamentally misunderstand 
the concept of Open Source, which would be kind of worrying.

-- 
Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
OpenStack Community Liaison
http://openstack.redhat.com/

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