- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:51:27 -0800
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@exchange.microsoft.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
On Wednesday 2008-01-09 18:56 -0800, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > I am not a lawyer but I think you get it backwards. It is your work, > then you get to choose how to license it. If you license it to W3C > which then publishes your work under a more restrictive license (I am > assuming you are not happy about that part), the original work is > still available from you directly, isn't it? I think you're confusing licensing and copyright assignment. A copyright holder, or all of them if there are multiple, can offer their works under additional licenses. Some open-source projects require assignment of copyright so that a single entity has this power; some projects leave the copyright with the author and accept work offered under a given license or set of licenses. (I am not a lawyer, etc.) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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