[Nagiosplug-devel] Antwort: Re: Contributing patches and retaining copyright

[Sascha.Runschke at gfkl.com]

> Our policy has nothing to do with "GPL fanatism" or the like.  Having a
> single copyright holder can simplify things, that's all.

I agree to a certain extend.
Though the _need_ to give away the copyright to the team can make
things harder, too. Especially for all of us who work for companies
using nagios and writing code/extensions/plugins for it. I cannot
give away something which doesn't belong to me. Code I produce
during my work is owned by my company. And it's not like I'm
alone in that boat - lots of people are in the same position.
By ruling out any submission without relinquishing the copyright
you also miss on a lot of submissions at all. I considered submitting
some plugins for a long time and have even been doing some work on
refurbishing them so they are usable by the public without the need
to hack things inside the plugins - but I can stop that work now.

Big question is:

Does the "benefit" of that restriction beat the "disadvantage" of
missing a lot of possibilities for new code submission?

I sincerely doubt that...

Regards
        Sascha



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