bazaar-ng copyright policy

[Neil Schemenauer]

Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> I'm willing to assign my copyright to Canonical.

As a developer, I like the way Zope handles this.  See the "Zope
Contributor Agreement" link on the following page
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/ContributorIntroduction .

The idea is that both Zope and the original developer get joint
ownership of the contribution.  Either party can relicense the code
if they so choose.

>From a legal standpoint, I'm not sure about it.  Legal counsel for a
previous employer said the join ownership idea was legally
impossible.  OTOH, I'm pretty sure that lawyer was incompetent. :-)

In any case, sorting out the deals of copyright ownership is
definitely a good idea.

  Neil