[Twisted-Python] What does the LGPL mean in terms of python?

Christopher Armstrong radix at twistedmatrix.com
Fri May 28 23:06:10 EDT 2004


Clark C. Evans wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:48:08PM -0400, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> | For these reasons, and also to facilitate contribution by those who have
> | the right to release their own work as open source but NOT to consign
> | copyright to it (such as students at and employees of MIT), we are going
> | to be switching to an MIT-style (no pun intended) license soon.
> 
> This is great news.  I have the same issue here, I can now submit code
> via any open source license, but the code I write belongs to the company
> that pays the bills... and, for their contribution, they'd like to have
> their name associated with the work.

I'm curious, how will we specify who owns copyright of Twisted? 
Centralized in one place (COPYRIGHT?), so effectively everyone gets the 
same "amount" of copyright? Per-file? I'm not familiar with how 
multi-copyright-holder projects usually work.

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