Reserved Edit Plugin

[Adrian Wilkins]

On 03/12/09 11:34, bazaar-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
> If I were to ship it would I need to sign the Canonical Contributor Agreement?
>
> I am developing it for my company, but they agree that it would be good to push
> it into the community.  My contract vests all the stuff I develop in company
> time with the company.

As a separate plugin, I don't think you need to sign the CCA ; you'd 
need to do that for significant contributions to the Bazaar core or 
other Canonical project. (Quite what counts as "significant", I don't 
know, I've got a number of small patches in there but have never been 
asked to sign a CCA).

You probably do need to release it under "GPL 2 or later" ; it's a 
plugin but arguably useless without the Bazaar APIs so I would place it 
in the set of "derivative work". As the copyright holder you could 
redistribute and relicense chunks of it that are not derivative works as 
you see fit, understanding that the original license on the GPLed work 
can't be revoked by this.

Hosting it on Launchpad, listing it on the relevant wiki pages, and 
mentioning it on the mailing list will net it all the attention it 
deserves and I'm sure people will contribute if they find it useful.

I'm not a lawyer though, or an employee of Canonical.