Copyright assignment for potential future free software project

Marc Baaden baaden at smplinux.de
Wed Apr 30 07:22:36 UTC 2003


Dear all,

we are starting a project, which we intend to put under GNU license and
distribute freely according to Free Software guidelines.

I will be the main coordinator of the project, but eg for startup there
will be a person working for about 4 months on some initial framework.

Now I wonder whether I should make this person sign any kind of copyright
assignment or so, in order to be able to deal with licensing issues etc.
on my own, once we get to a stage where the software will be useful to
more people than just ourselves.

Can someone give me some guidance about the legal issues involved here ?

a) will the person working temporarily on the project have copyright on
   her work ?

b) is there a standard form to fill in or so

c) are there other precautions to take

d) [very specific] are there other people working for the French research
   organisation CNRS who know which general steps to take to ensure all
   copyright issues with respect to developed software are resolved ?

Thanks very much in advance,

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Kind regards,
  Marc Baaden

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