Difference between revisions of "Joint Copyright Assignment"

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The Joint Copyright Assignment is a legal document you sign giving Sun, as well as your self, copyright to your contributions to OpenOffice.org.

There is more good blurb about this [1] here for those that want to know more.

For JCA already sent and still awaiting for approval, please see the Pending JCAs section to post your enquiry and follow up.

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 It lurks at http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/jca.pdf
-A non-lawyer's view of this and it's reasonableness is provided by Michael Meeks (a non-Sun developer):
- In my opinion the JCA is both sensible and reasonable.
-st - it is important to have a single owner for the OO.o codebase copyright
-       to allow re-licensing in future. Ideally it would be owned by a neutral
-rd party, but the existing situation works well because:
-nd - Sun does not (ab)use the re-licensing provisions available to them,
-       indeed - quite the opposite they contribute all their changes to the code
-       following the spirit of the LGPL much as anyone else would.
- Furthermore, the JCA doesn't 'loose' you your copyright, just shares it.
- Novell, RedHat and other corporations &amp; groups have collectively signed
- the JCA.
 There is more good blurb about this [http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#usinglicenses] here for those that want to know more.