Re: Guidelines for accepting contributions (Was: MySQL / SNMP)

[Stewart Smith]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 00:38 -0700, Marc Alff wrote:
> I have a lot of interest in that subject also, and some questions
> regarding the "legal stuff".
> 
> If a project is pure GPL and maintained on the side, then the
> distinction between MySQL and MySQL+Patch "X" is clear,
> and existence of project X (say, on SourceForge) does not prevent MySQL
> AB to offer a dual license on it's own code base.
> 
> If the code is included into the MySQL server tree, what are the
> guidelines and things to do to make sure
> that the entire code can continue to be distributed under the dual
> license ? (Assuming it's MySQL AB best interest to do so).
> Is there anything in place comparable to the FSF copyright assignment
> for MySQL ?

Yes, there's copyright assignment stuff. There will be a clear, concise
and brief document outlining the specifics out shortly.
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Stewart Smith, Software Engineer
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