[Nagiosplug-devel] Contributing patches and retaining copyright

[Marc Powell]

On May 6, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:

> I totally agree about getting copyrights for the team for legal issue;
> at the same time can't we leave the original code copyright to its
> original author?
>
> That means the we'd still have full copyright, and the author would
> retain full copyright of the original code, but not for modified  
> version
> by the team.

The copyright page specifically mentions dual-copyright --

"There is a task to ensure all code is owned (solely or dual  
copyright) to the Nagios Plugins Development Team, to avoid confusion  
about ownership in future."

I have no real horse in this race but this seems most interesting to  
me...

--
Marc