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[Marie Rognes <meg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20. okt. 2010 20:10, Anders Logg wrote:
> David Ham skrev 2010-10-20 19.54:
>>
>>>> How should we go about making the change? Is it enough if everyone
>>>> just
>>>> responds to this list? Or do we need something more formal like David
>>>> Ham suggests?
>>>
>>> Can you reiterate what he suggested.
>>
>> I can reiterate what he suggested ;).
>>
>> In essence, if you write code as part of your job, your employer owns
>> the copyright, not you. The Fluidity project handles this by requiring a
>> copyright licensing letter from every individual contributor and from
>> the copyright department at their institution. The Institution letter
>> says:
>>
>> CONSENT TO COPYRIGHT LICENSING UNDER THE LGPL
>>
>> On behalf of name of <commercialisation organisation> I hereby give my
>> consent to the redistribution and/or modification of <name of
>> university> contributions to the Fluidity/Imperial College Ocean Model
>> project under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
>> published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
>> License, or (at each distributor's option) any later version.
>>
>> The individual letters say essentially the same thing with the obvious
>> changes.
>>
>> To be really safe in terms of knowing that you absolutely, legally do
>> have the right to distribute under a given licence, I think you need to
>> do something like that. However you might also take the position that as
>> long as the individual contributors are happy, the universities will be
>> too. Imperial is very mercenary so I wouldn't take that for granted but
>> your institutions might be more enlightened.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> I think that would work fine. The main trouble would be to hunt down
> everyone that has ever contributed and make them sign the paper, but
> the sooner we try the greater chance we have of a success.
>
> I suggest we try this. I can put together a form and put it somewhere
> on the website for download. Then everyone will be asked to get it
> signed and return it to me. (Anyone else wants to collect the
> documents, let me know.) Johannes can assist me in keeping track of
> which signatures are missing. When we have a large enough fraction of
> signatures (so we think we can safely ignore the missing signatures),
> then we can update all the licenses.
>
> Sounds good?
>

Yes.

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Marie