Legal stuff

Subject: Legal stuff
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 01:43:22 CDT

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I was talking to a GNU person today about copyright, and it got me
wondering about what AbiSource's position on copyright is. Do they claim
copyright for contributed source becuase the source files say "Copyright
AbiSource Inc."? Or are they more of a sponsor to a community project?

Since I never signed any paperwork relating to AbiSource, I have no idea
whether they claim copyright for contributions or not, and I doubt that
they can legally claim it without having people sign over copyright to
contributions.

I don't actually have any issues that require this clairification, but I'm
just wondering about the legal stuff involved. I'm not a lawyer. But I
wouldn't want anyone, even AbiSource, suddenly turning stuff I worked on
into proprietary software. So, I think it is a valid question.

Thanks,
Aaron Lehmann

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