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Improve legal statement #65

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milgner opened this issue Jan 21, 2019 · 2 comments
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Improve legal statement #65

milgner opened this issue Jan 21, 2019 · 2 comments

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@milgner
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milgner commented Jan 21, 2019

I was just checking out Kiba - very interesting! - and the legal statement at the end caught my eye. It says "assign the copyright". However, in Germany (and maybe in other countries as well), copyright is a personal, non-waivable right belonging to the author. One can grant all rights to modify and distribute the contributed code, though.
Since your intention is to not prevent anyone from contributing code, I think it might be a good idea to put this into a form that is actually applicable to all possible contributors.
IANAL but I assume there should be some legal wordings out there (maybe in the BSD or MIT licenses) that have the intended effect.

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thbar commented Jan 21, 2019

Thanks for the input! It's a very good remark.

I will verify with a lawyer (since I'm in the process of creating a license for Kiba Pro, which will also mentions Kiba & Kiba Common etc), to provide the proper phrasing here.

Many thanks in all cases!

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thbar commented Jan 25, 2019

@milgner I'm closing this in favour of #67 - I'm working on a proper contributor agreement with my lawyer, which will be ready shortly. Thanks for raising this!

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