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Re: Correcting misinformation about the Government Open Code Collaborative

From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
To: Jim Willis <sjwillis AT sec.state.ri.us>
Cc: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: Correcting misinformation about the Government Open Code Collaborative
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:59:33 +0000

On Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 04:26PM, Zak Greant <zak AT mysql.com> wrote:

>In fact, the members in the GOCC project only have to assert, via a
>contract, that they have the right to publish software contributed to
>the repository under the license that they choose to contribute it under
>or that is already attached to that software.

Hi.

Thanks for fighting the FUD. :-)

One question that's relevent to the discussion on this list is why project
members have to make this assertion? Surely by contributing they are
implicitly claiming that the software is theirs to contribute? What legal
efect does making the assertion part of the contract have?

Thanks.

- Rob.

Re: Correcting misinformation about the Government Open Code Collaborative, Rob Myers, 03/23/2004
- Re: Correcting misinformation about the Government Open Code Collaborative, Zak Greant, 03/23/2004