bazaar-ng copyright policy

[Fredrik Lundh]

Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> 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. :-)

looking at my local copyrights laws, it's not at all obvious that I can share the copy-
right with someone who hasn't contributed to the work.  I can transfer the copyright
for the entire work, or for parts of it, but I cannot find any text that covers joint owner-
ship.

(the legally correct way to do this would be to start a jointly owned company, and
transfer the copyright to that, but that doesn't exactly sound practical ;-)

on the other hand, it also depends on how "the work" is defined.  in this case, I'd say
it's Bazaar-NG that's the work, not the individual patches, and it's clearly stated that if
multiple authors have contributed to a work, and the contributions cannot be seen as
independent works, the authors automatically share the copyright...

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