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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2006-03-30
>They also want you to give them copyright too, right?
You can assign the copyright to the FSFE if you want that the FSFE handles the legal issues and taking care of licence compliance.
But you can also use the FLA as basis for your own organisation or company. That's why it is licensed under the GFDL and the CC by-sa. For example the GNOME Foundation could use the FLA to bundle the GNOME copyright in the GNOME Foundation.
For more information read: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2007q1/000168.htm...
Edited 2007-02-01 18:57