This document contains information about how copyright is attributed in this repository (CafeSat). It is written in English; not in legal language.
The following moral persons hold some form of copyright on some parts of CafeSat:
- Régis Blanc ([email protected])
- Matthias Schlaipfer ([email protected])
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
It is not quite clear who owns what, life is tough sometimes. Anyway, all code is released under an open source license which should make exact ownership information irelevant. Git history could help indicating ownership, but history can sometimes be modified.
There is no copyright notice in any file of this project as this is an imprecise solution that involves duplication of data. Git maintains a very precise history of who changed what and when. This help a little bit, but is not authoritative as well.
The copyright is not centralized to one party but is kept by each contributor. Basically each committer owns each one of his commit to this repository. A commit message can indicate that the commit has been done on behalf of a third party, and will then attribute the contribution to the original author.
In order to simplify the licensing of the software, all code contributed to this repository has to be released under the terms of the MIT licence. This ensures maximal freedom for everybody in the use of the software.
BY COMMITTING TO THIS REPOSITORY, YOU ACCEPT TO RELEASE YOUR CODE UNDER THE TERMS OF THE MIT LICENSE AS DESCRIBE IN THE LICENSE FILE.