On Mon, Apr 25, 2005, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
Modified: trunk/LICENSE Log: No, consigning copyright means it is _not_ (C) you. Let's keep this file simple, please.
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+Copyright (c) 2004,2005 Twisted Matrix Labs, http://www.twistedmatrix.com/ +(except as listed below)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the @@ -47,4 +23,5 @@ Copyright Exceptions: - + - Portions copyright Massachusetts Institute of Technology, due to + contributions of staff and students.
I was reminded at the sprint that I needed to ask about this. My understanding of the license policy was as per http://twistedmatrix.com/bugs/issue903 -- ie, that the *only* thing commiters needed to do was to MIT license their contributions. This is all that http://twistedmatrix.com/developers/contributing currently states. Therefore, that was what I'd been getting people who contributed documentation to agree to, and that was my understanding of the licencing and copyright of my own contributions as of the date when the MIT licensing of Twisted began. If the current policy is that copyright must be consigned to an entity called "Twisted Matrix Labs", then this policy needs to be confirmed, restored to the webpage, and the status of all contributions at least since the website change and probably since the licence change needs to be confirmed with individual contributors. Also, my own network of nebulous legal advice from dubious sources suggests that Australian contributors might want to seek legal advice about how to do copyright consignment: it was suggested to me that the status of your moral right to be identified as author needs to be firmly nailed down for the consignment to have any validity whatsoever. -Mary