Re: Future code ownership

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>Note: I have no intention of forcing people with an existing Red Hat 
>>assignment to change. That's up to them, and I don't think it makes 
>>significant difference since Red Hat's copyright on a lot of the code is 
>>here to stay. However, I think it is in the best interests of the Open 
>>Source project for any significant contributions to be "moved" to the new 
>>system, and certainly this would become the requirement for new assignments.
> 
> 
> How does this 'move' work in practice? Do we change the copywrite
> headers on the source or does it keep the modified GPL?

We change the assignment proforma and tell people to use the new 
assignment forms. We maintainers would probably switch to the new 
assignment immediately (probably by informing Red Hat the previous 
assignment is now cancelled), but as I said, I don't want to force anyone 
with an existing Red Hat assignment to sign a new one if they don't want 
to. Anyone with an existing RH assignment can and should be allowed to 
continue contributing on that basis if they want, with their code then 
becoming (C) Red Hat.

> Can existing code, which i contributed in the past, like say the DNS &
> FTP client etc, be moved?

Only if it wasn't already assigned to Red Hat. So in those specific cases, no.

Jifl
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