[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #1938: make the existence of the Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation apparent

[Tahoe-LAFS]

#1938: make the existence of the Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation apparent
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     Reporter:  zooko        |      Owner:  secor
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  soon (release n/a)
    Component:  website      |    Version:  1.9.2
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:
Launchpad Bug:               |
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Comment (by leif):

 Zooko and I talked about this in person sometime last year and I forgot to
 update this ticket. If I remember correctly, the takeaway was that the
 copyright assignment thing was actually a misunderstanding. If I'm not
 mistaken, what is actually desired is a license which permits the
 foundation to relicense the code under non-free licenses. This license
 need not be exclusive, which makes it fine with me: I am happy to
 infinitely-license all of my contributions CC0, Public Domain, WTFPL, GPL,
 and TGPPL. What I'm not happy to do is grant someone an exclusive license
 to sue someone for copyright infringement on my behalf.

 Another thing to note is that the Foundation's license to relicense the
 code is not being used by Least Authority's non-free Tahoe derivatives:
 Least Authority is exercising the same time-limited rights that everyone
 gets under the Transitive Grace Period Public License (as of our
 conversation sometime in 2013, at least).

 Anyway, this (hopefully correctly-recalled) understanding resolves the
 issue for me, but not for everyone else... to close this ticket, I think
 the licensing and the existence of the foundation needs to be made clear
 somewhere in the documentation.

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