[Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

[Atlant Schmidt]

All:

> "Licensor hereby grants, in exchange for good and valuable
> consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
> acknowledged, ...

  I wonder what "good and valuable consideration" Nokia's
  attorneys believe is being provided as their part of this
  contract? Usually, that term means money, even if it's
  just the pro-forma one dollar or one Euro. Nokia allowing
  you to give them your work product seems like a good
  and valuable consideration that's flowing from YOU to
  THEM!

                             Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 20:55
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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