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

[Tony Finch <[e-mail]>]

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.

Tony.
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