[License-discuss] BSD 3-clause and copyright notices

[Gervase Markham]

On 02/10/15 15:36, Zluty Sysel wrote:
> So just to be sure, if the contributors waiver their ownership rights,
> then the 3-clause BSD stands and if users do not acknowledge usage of
> the software in their binary distributions it is up to the company to
> choose whether to enforce or not that obligation, leaving us the
> option of not enforcing it with certain customers.

You can't waive ownership rights; you have to assign or license them.
But yes.

> Do we really need additional paperwork? wouldn't it be enough to have
> a license agreement that each contributor has to accept
> (electronically, just by pressing "Accept" or something to that
> effect).
> In our particular case, and given the nature of our software, we
> believe a waiver to the to the attribution clause in binary
> distributions would be more than acceptable for our potential
> contributors, so this could be the solution we're after.

If I were you, I'd save the trouble and use the zlib license instead.

Gerv