[LLVMdev] clarification to copyright section of developer policy

[Sebastian Redl]

On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

> Am 23.09.2010 19:44, schrieb Chris Lattner:
>> In practice, copyright assignment is
>> really only useful (afaik) for two things:
>> 
>> 1) being able to change the copyright in the future. 2) having a
>> single entity to down violators of the license.
>> 
>> Since neither of these are really interesting goals for the project,
>> having distributed copyright is not a problem.
> 
> Not currently, but project goals do change over time.
> 
> (I don't think the "hunt down violators" aspect is relevant at all; any 
> contributor should have authority to pounce on violators. At least 
> that's how German Urheberrecht works, AFAIK.)

I'm guessing that the distributed ownership would give the defense lawyers plenty of opportunity to spread FUD about whether any single person can actually claim a significant violation.

Sebastian