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El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 22:51 +0100, Simon Waters escribiÃ: > [...] > In most instances you have little to gain, and potentially a lot to lose > in assigning copyright. > > So unless there is a compelling reason keep ownership of what you write. > > You can always relicense code when you think you need to make more money > like Oracle have just done. IANAL but I guess relicensing it isn't retroactive, is it? I mean, in case Oracle decided to not release MySQL GPLed anymore, will the already released GPL code remain free? Anyway, I agree with you that copyright assignment it's definitely harmful. Cheers, Juanjo PS: about copyright assignment, worth reading: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ ramble on: http://rambleon.usebox.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html