Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Feb 2007 15:52 UTC, submitted by Dolores Parker
This week FSF Europe announced the release of its Fiduciary License Agreement, a form of copyright assignment in which a free software project can place its collective copyright under the control of a single organization or trustee. The agreement is designed to reduce the problems in managing copyrights in large projects, and to reconcile differences in copyright worldwide. However, exactly how important, useful, or necessary the FLA is depends upon whom you talk to in the free software community. To some extent, FSFE even seems to be operating contrary to the advice of the original Free Software Foundation in the US.
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2006-08-26
From TFA:
Asked to comment about Moglen's position, Coughlan acknowledges that "if people need legal advice they should consult a lawyer." However, in the next sentence, he says, "If people are confident that they already know what they require" then they have the option of using the FLA.
Note that Coughlan qualifies the need for legal help here. Moreover, Moglen's concern is that they may begin to promote the FLA as DIY, not that they are presently doing it. Since what is at stake is not merely the moral rights of any arbitrary software project but possibly nasty precedents, I would prefer that Moglen be too concerned rather than not enough. If anything, his concern seems understated, IMHO.
So is there any inconsistency other than what ciaran already pointed out?
Edited 2007-02-13 22:42