[Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

Scott Aron Bloom Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com
Wed Apr 18 02:57:41 CEST 2012


Yes you did..

Otherwise, they would have to keep a separate branch, one for opensource one for commercial.

Anything you submit can be incorporated in both.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:55 PM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: [Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

I went to register for a Gerrit account.  There I saw that I must agree to a "contributor agreement".  It's very legalese, so I'm not sure if it means what I think it means: Nokia can transform open source code I contribute into non-open code?

"Licensor hereby grants, in exchange for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, to Nokia a sublicensable, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully paid-up copyright and trade secret license to reproduce, adapt, translate, modify, and prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, make available and distribute Licensor Contribution(s) and any derivative works thereof under license terms of Nokia’s choosing including any Open Source Software license."

The beef is the phrase "under license terms of Nokia’s choosing", which can be an open license, but is not required to.

Did I understand that correctly?

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