Linux.com: FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement is No Panacea
Feb 13, 2007, 17:30 (0 Talkback[s])
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"This week FSF Europe (FSFE) announced the release of its
Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), 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
United States.
"Shane M. Coughlan of the Freedom Task Force, a group within
FSFE that offers license consultation and education, describes the
FLA as 'a solution for projects that wish to improve their
copyright coherency...'"
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