Re: [apps-discuss] draft-lear-iana-timezone-database

[Marc Blanchet <[e-mail]>]

Le 11-03-03 14:47, Tony Finch a écrit :
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Eliot Lear wrote:
>>
>>> Section 6:
>>>
>>> Should it be made clear in this section that contributions to the code are
>>> presumed to be in the public domain or under equivalently liberal
>>> licencing terms whether or not the contributions are made via the mailing
>>> list? Or is section 7 enough?
>>
>> And this goes to Marc's point C) as well.  The goal here is to assume
>> the current responsibilities of the TZ coordinator which includes some
>> code.  The database itself is in the public domain.  So is much of the
>> code, but not all.  Thus there is a distinction.
>
> Right. But it gets very complicated if you try to say that if a
> contributor is making a contribution to the Berkeley licenced code then
> their licence must also be Berkeley licenced but not otherwise. Do they
> get to add their copyright line to the Berkeley code? etc.
>
> If all contributions are unambigously public domain then they can be
> freely added to the existing code regardless of the existing code's
> licence.
>
> So I'm making a distinction between the licence in contributions and the
> licence of the (parts of) the collaborative work as a whole.

I continue to think that archiving and managing software should not be 
done by IANA, but some third party over a forge site.

Marc.

>
> Tony.


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