[Xerte-dev] Re: Identifying Committers

[Julian Tenney]

I suspect you are right. We need to take some advice. In this case though we can simply drop the feature if it becomes problematic, or implement it ourselves (it’s just an ffmpeg wrapper).

This does potentially have implications for work undertaken for pay in the future though. I need to investigate this further.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
Sent: 08 October 2014 11:55
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Identifying Committers

Nope, that isn't good.

If you work for someone, and they pay you, then the copyright in the product is nominally theirs. The presence of a contract is explicit in the payment to be honest (to me). The default (to me) is I would assume the IP is theirs, and not yours (the absence of a deal to me reinforces the default, not creates a new status)

I'm doing some work with Warwick at the mo and the terms of their basic registration as a contractor cover IP transfer.

The nature of the feature request isn't really an issue, it's the payment. If you work for free then the contract wouldn't be a contract any ways (no consideration)





On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
I'm not a lawyer either... it sounds OK to me, there are many examples where a feature exists because a user requested something, it doesn't make that feature theirs, but in most cases no money has changed hands. Other than the money that Warwick pay you for hosting, did any other money change hands for this?

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Identifying Committers



On 08/10/14 11:20, Julian Tenney wrote:
> (I hope) that doesn't make Warwick a contributor?

I wouldn't have thought so. But I'm not a lawyer.


They [Warwick] raised an issue with the quality of video playback within their LOs, and upon investigation our best fix was to transcode the videos into html5 friendly formats -- hence the patch.

We then merged that into XOT.

Warwick paid us to resolve issues with their installation.


I'd expect that the copyright of the code rests with Pale Purple - given there is/was no contract in place between Pale Purple and Warwick assigning copyright to Warwick.


David.

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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of David
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> To: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>; For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Identifying Committers
>
> palepurple = public github accont for palepurple.
>
> will = employee/internal username which was sucked up in git's merge history when we merged the work Will did for Warwick Uni on XOT.
>
> David.
>



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