Re: [CA cert] Re: Copyright/License (Was: Bet)

["David Kaufman" <david AT gigawatt.com>]

Christian Barmala wrote:
>
> And now choose one of the two licensing schemes:
>
> Option 1:
> Almost all code is written by Duane. It will be open source ...
> [...] However Line 620 ... 653 of file
> /assure/67.php were written by Peter who grants you the "Modified BSD
> license" with the right to change the licensing scheme some day. Line
> 25 ... 70 of file /email/106.php are written by George who grants you
> the "Boost Software License" however with the addition that you first
> have to register on his web site. Greg's code Line 1001 ... 1010 is
> not open source at all, but you get a non-exclusive ritght to use it
> for the following purpose ...

or

> Option 2:
> Author: The individuals who contributed code or text over the time
> Copyright: CAcert.org
> Licence: GPL for code FDL for content

i think it would be *completely* appropriate to require contributors to
assign their copyright to to CAcert.  many open source projects do this.
most notably, the Apache and Mozilla licenses could be used as models of
this type of license.

-dave