KDE e.V.
Fiduciary Licensing Agreement
Fiduciary Licensing Agreement
At the General Assembly of KDE e.V. in August 2008 the membership voted to adopt a Fiduciary Licensing Agreement as the preferred form for assigning copyright to KDE e.V.
Copyright assignment is a personal act. It is entirely optional and at an individual developer, contributor or copyright holder's discretion whether to assign copyright to KDE e.V. or not. While there are various legal avenues available to do such an assignment, a Fiduciary License Agreement is one that preserves the spirit of Free Software and is easy to administer.
The form for the Fiduciary Licensing Agreement is available from the resources page, where you fill find the FLA (pdf, 40kB) itself and the FRP (pdf, 50kB) relicensing policy.
The Fiduciary Licensing Agreement was created in cooperation with the Free Software Foundation Europe.
As of mid-august 2009, over 20 long-time KDE contributors have assigned their copyright to KDE e.V. through a FLA.
