OpenSales -- DRAFT developers agreement

[David Johnson]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> > Yeeargh! You want me to assign all rights to you forever for ZERO
> > compensation? It's not too often one has to sign a contract in order to
> > make a donation.
> 
> Copyright remains with you.

Maybe in name, but not necessarily in action. If I should later want to
relicense my own code I am unable to do it. What if I would want
to relicense it under the LGPL because of its library-like
nature? Or what if I decided that my software should not be owned
and wanted to release it under the public domain? Although their
preamble is not legally binding, I find it a fascinating snapshot of
their intent with the agreement: "You desire to _forever_ license all
of your Contributed Code ... under the terms of the GNU GPL." Forever
is a hell of a long time.

Equally fascinating is that you must agree to all terms and conditions
of the GNU GPL, yet none of those conditions applies to the original
developer!

-- 
David Johnson
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