[IIAB] Licensing

James McDuffie mcduffie at pitfall.org
Thu Jun 27 13:55:46 PDT 2013


I think the license is fine. I am fine with assigning copyright to
Humane Infomatics. You can mention contributors in a file separate from
the license. I just got an email from another open source project asking
me to sign a document to formally state my handing over of copyright to
their organization. Which, they claim is standard practice for large OSS
projects. However we are not there yet and I think these emails pretty
much serve as our permission for transfer of copyright.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Braddock wrote:
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> Hi guys,
> I declared the IIAB code to be BSD licensed in LICENSE.txt last month,
> just cause I had to declare something.  Currently I only list my LLC,
> Humane Informatics LLC as copyright holder.  But this doesn't
> acknowledge Joel's, James', and others' contributions.
> 
> First, is BSD an acceptable license for you all?
> 
> Second, do you want contributors to assign copyright to Humane
> Informatics LLC, or just want a full listing of contributors as
> copyright holders?
> 
> Either is fine with me.  Assignment to my LLC may help a little with
> any liability issues.
> 
> - -braddock
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