[storm] Getting contributions integrated

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Fri Aug 3 23:43:29 BST 2007


Hello everyone,

I'd like to clarify one point about contributions so that it doesn't
come as a surprise at later stages of development: it's part of the
company policy to require copyright assignments to projects that are
released as open source.

This is common on many projects, and offers the organization continued
control over the released source code even if integrations are made.
This is generally not a problem, as the code *is* released as open
source, but I certainly respect any different opinions, and don't
intend to turn that into a debate.

The precise wording of the assignment is available at:

  https://storm.canonical.com/CopyrightAssignment

Attent readers will perceive that it's a copy of the Bazaar document,
with the project name replaced.

Please notice that we *always* give credit to any contributions made
nevertheless.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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