As much as we'd all probably like to work unconstrained by copyrights and other legalities like that, the reality is that all open source projects have to deal with the legal stuff to avoid problems that could jeopardize or severely compromise the project's goals.
I'm starting this topic to discuss all those kind of things that we must deal with.
I was looking around for project ideas and came across
Taiga and their
code of conduct which was adopted from the
Contributor Covenant. Looks like something we might want to leverage for the Ranch Corral project.
Also, many employers have assignment of inventions and intellectual property rights agreements with their employees. I used to have one of those and I needed a formal written confirmation from my employer that any work I did related to open source projects were exempted from the assignment agreement. We should probably keep this in mind as this has some pretty serious legal implications. Anyone who contributes to the project should be able to guarantee, in writing, that their contributions are not bound by any such agreements with outside third parties.