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How do I make contributors to my project transfer copyright to me? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by dullbananas@lemmy.ca to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Is there a pull request template that does this?

Edit: I was worried about possibly needing to change license. For now I will just use a permissive license. The situation is made seemingly complicated by the possible need to use copylefted images, combined with the possible need for using server code (which shouldn't use creative commons) in addition to the static html. I would rather deal with including parts with different licenses (probably not as complicated as I initially thought) instead of contributor license agreements.

Edit 2: Also, license enforcement is not very important for my project.

Edit 3: Now I'm using creative commons zero and making the repo comply with https://reuse.software/

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I was worried about possibly needing to change license.

I'd rather ask the contributors to consent to licensing their code under the new license. You don't need the copyright in the hand of one entity to change license, it's enough if all copyright holders agree.

The situation is made seemingly complicated by the possible need to use copylefted images

WDYM by "images"?

As in art assets? I'm not sure those would even be infectious. I think it's possible to even use non-free assets in a GPL'd application. It may be better to treat them as such to keep the licensing simple though.

Even then, it's usually possible to "upgrade" permissively licensed code (such as Apache 2.0) to a copyleft license as long as the original license's conditions are still met which usually involves denoting which parts of the code is also available under the permissive license.