Real-World Copyright Assignment

[phil hunt]

On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:58 am, Henningsen wrote:
> Currently that is the rule no doubt, but I think we could get open
> source code written faster and probably better if people could
> actually expect getting paid for their work. In exchange for giving
> up his/her copyrights, a contributor to my code who has written 10%
> of the code (counted by lines of code, assuming that every
> contributing author writes entire file modules, and small patches
> are disregarded) would get paid something like 5% of any profits
> from commercial licenses.

If you are counting strictly by code size, won't that tend to
produce bloated code? If I was being paid according
to LOCs I'd written, I could write some shitty bloated rubbish.


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