FSFE Releases Fiduciary License Agreement

lisah writes "FSF Europe announced this week that it has released its Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), which is being touted as an 'assignment of copyright.' The goal of the FLA is to allow free software projects to place their copyright under the control of a single group or trustee, though its usefulness is being debated throughout the open source community since it only address the authorship rights of a project, not the more intangible moral rights. Furthermore, the agreement seems to have been created without the involvement of a lot of lawyers and some members of the community worry that the FLA might have unintended consequences if adopted without sound legal advice." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

Comments

Re:"Moral Rights"

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

I don't know about Europe, but Canada's Copyright Act has a concept of "moral rights".

Re:What?

[nomadic]

It's a verb and an adjective. A fiduciary is someone who's legally required to put your interests in something ahead of their own; it generally arises out of a contract. Like if you own a restaurant, and hire a guy to manage it, that guy is a fiduciary, and has a fiduciary duty to run the restaurant with your interests in mind.

Re:"Moral Rights"

[Rydia]

See, there are no moral rights in the US. The only thing that comes close is VARA, and that is very bare-bones.

The headline is wrong. FSF != FSFE

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

This article is about FSFE, which is independent of the FSF.