Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Feb 2007 14:36 UTC, submitted by Shane Martin Coughlan
"The Fiduciary Licence Agreement is a copyright assignment that allows Free Software projects to bundle their copyright in a single organisation or person. This enables projects to ensure their legal maintainability, including important issues such as preserving the ability to relicense and certainty to have sufficient rights to enforce licences in court. The assigning party does not lose their ability to use their code either, as the FLA ensures a re-transferral of unlimited usage/single exploitation rights back to the author."
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>Am I the only one that do think this is an excellent move from the FSF?
Yes this is definitely an excellent move.
But it's not the FSF who releases the FLA under the GFDL and the CC by-sa it is the FSFE!
You can use this as a basis to collect the licenses for your project. Or if you don't want to deal with all the legal topics you can make the FSFE to your legal guardian and let the FSFE take care about this topics so that you can concentrate on the fun part (Hacking). More Informations: http://www.fsfeurope.org/ftf/
Edited 2007-02-01 16:56
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2006-07-26
Am I the only one that do think this is an excellent move from the FSF ? Had this one existed previously, it would have avoided the whole problem related to the GPLv2 to GLPv3 change of a lot of code lines. This demonstrates for me the the FSF is a dynamic organization that tries to solve the problems as soon as possible. A big thanks to the FSF for fighting for my freedom with all the available instruments they have.