[Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

Miha Wagner miha.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 03:12:24 CEST 2012


Then don't do it? You still have the choice: you don't have to be ripped
off if you don't want to.

Cheers

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was under the impression that the LGPL is perfectly suitable for
> proprietary applications.  I don't want to sound like a greedy
> egomaniac, but giving code I intend to be open source to be used under a
> proprietary license without me getting paid sounds like a rip-off.
>
>
> On 18/04/12 03:57, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> > 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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