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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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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.
@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!
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.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: