<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 6 May 2009, at 10:02, <a href="mailto:Sascha.Runschke@gfkl.com">Sascha.Runschke@gfkl.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Any contributed code that gets back into the main code from now on is <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">accepted on the basis that the copyright can be given to the Nagios <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Plugin team. I've updated the FAQ entry to be clearer on that policy: <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://nagiosplugins.org/copyright">http://nagiosplugins.org/copyright</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We'd be happy to hear about any changes, but only if you are willing <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to relinquish copyright.<br></blockquote><br>Hi Ton,<br><br>for most people - including me, it is unacceptable to fully<br>relinquish the copyright on something that's my (or my<br>companies) work. The reasoning that the plugins team needs<br>"the right" to make changes to the code even after the<br>original author has withdrawn from public does not really make<br>sense to me. After all the code is GPL and everyone can do<br>whatever he wants with it - as long as the copyright and<br>GPL notice are retained.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>We're following advice given by FSF: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you have contributed some code to the project, we thank you and we make sure you (and/or your company) get credit. But in reality, the team take on the responsibility to make sure that the code continues to work correctly. Not just at commit time, but forever. </div><div><div><br></div><div>I think this continued responsibility should be reflected in the ownership of the code.</div><div><br></div></div><div>The upshot for you (and/or your company) is that you no longer maintain that code anymore - that has to be worth something!</div><div><br></div><div>Ton</div><div><br></div></body></html>