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Data processing & ETL framework for Ruby
https://www.kiba-etl.org
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Improve legal statement #65

Closed milgner closed 5 years ago

milgner commented 5 years ago

I was just checking out Kiba - very interesting! - and the legal statement at the end caught my eye. It says "assign the copyright". However, in Germany (and maybe in other countries as well), copyright is a personal, non-waivable right belonging to the author. One can grant all rights to modify and distribute the contributed code, though. Since your intention is to not prevent anyone from contributing code, I think it might be a good idea to put this into a form that is actually applicable to all possible contributors. IANAL but I assume there should be some legal wordings out there (maybe in the BSD or MIT licenses) that have the intended effect.

thbar commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the input! It's a very good remark.

I will verify with a lawyer (since I'm in the process of creating a license for Kiba Pro, which will also mentions Kiba & Kiba Common etc), to provide the proper phrasing here.

Many thanks in all cases!

thbar commented 5 years ago

@milgner I'm closing this in favour of #67 - I'm working on a proper contributor agreement with my lawyer, which will be ready shortly. Thanks for raising this!