Which License should I pick?

[Scott Long]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

> > Like you say, it's good to keep as many options open as possible, and it's 
> > hard to go back on a licensing decision if it's too broad.
> 
> No it is the other way around: if the program is released under a less
> restricted license, e.g. xfree86-ish, then you could always, without
> the consent of contributors, change to (L)GPL for newer versions. The
> wine project (http://www.winehq.org) is a real world example of such a
> change.

I hadn't considered the issue of ownership of copyright for contributed 
code. Is it common for open source projects to stipulate that contributors 
either transfer copyright or agree to allow the owner to change the 
license? If I asked for such an agreement would I be scaring away 
potential contributors?

I'm starting to wish I didn't have to worry about all this junk.

Thanks,
Scott


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