Re: [legal-discuss] [Fwd: [openstack-dev] Call for a clear COPYRIGHT-HOLDERS file in all OpenStack projects (and [trove] python-troveclient_0.1.4-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:05:03PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:

but out of curiosity what's the copyright holder identification concern specific to Red Hat employees? Are their contributions not a work for hire (so that they're counted as independent contributors for the sake of copyright assignment)?

I don't consider it a 'concern' in this setting, but a theoretical complication. Some employees retain copyright ownership of some contributions under some circumstances. - RF