On 15.06.2012 11:12, ceki wrote:
My apologies for not clarifying this before. As you are probably aware, the CLA [1] assigns copyright of your contributors to QOS.ch (see section 2). Thus, it makes sense to state QOS.ch as the copyright holder and not each individual contributor. To be blunt, QOS.ch cannot release software for which it does not hold copyright. Of course, the various @author tags and commit history reveal the actual authors, pursuant the authors' moral rights [2].
Bertrand Delacretaz correctly pointed out that by signing the logback CLA [1], contributors *grant* copyright to QOS.ch, they do not *assign* it. The difference is subtle but important. The contributor continues to hold his or her previous copyrights to the contributed work. I am sorry for the incorrect wording in my previous message (quoted above). [1] http://logback.qos.ch/cla.txt -- Ceki http://twitter.com/#!/ceki