[LLVMdev] clarification to copyright section of developer policy

Joachim Durchholz jo at durchholz.org
Thu Sep 23 13:58:46 PDT 2010


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.)

Regards,
Jo



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