From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1F1571 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [66.63.167.143]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6720C15B for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE748EE4A0 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8wN0O9dSS17J for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [153.66.254.194] (unknown [50.46.144.141]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77AF38EE0E7 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1472403654.2420.29.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: James Bottomley To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:00:54 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Owning your own copyrights in Linux List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Regardless of the outcome of the GPL defence thread, I think we do mostly agree that distributed copyright ownership is useful in Linux, so I'd like to propose a practical topic on how individual developers can achieve this. I'm afraid this will mostly be US centric (since that's where I've worked), but there's no reason we can't use similar techniques in other jurisdictions. I've used three techniques over my career: 1. Invention Disclosure Exceptions 2. Separate agreements for Copyright ownership (useful because they can be negotiated even after you sign an employment agreement) 3. Modifications to the employment agreement itself. I can describe each of these and the negotiating process, which will give real world examples for others to use. In many ways, this would also be a good plumbers topic, but I can be much more frank in the closed day of kernel summit which is why it would be good to have the discussion there. James