Copyright assignment

[Michael Sweet]

Venky wrote:
> I have seen a couple of post which mention stuff like "(the patch) is
> large enough to require a copyright assignment to be incorporated
> into CUPS".  Where can I find more details about this policy?  Have
> already searched the forums and Google.  Did not find anything much.

See:

     http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L186

As for the patch size, generally anything over a few dozen lines
that isn't composed of obvious typo fixes probably will require
copyright assignment or licensing to Apple Inc.

If you have specific legal questions, send them to cups-info at cups.org
and I'll forward to the appropriate people at Apple.

> Would the copyright for the changes have to be assigned to Apple?

Typically yes.  There have also been contributions provided under MIT
and New BSD licenses (which allow Apple to redistribute as needed
while the author retains the original copyright...)

-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com