Proposals for mono-basic and monodoc
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 6 19:22:46 UTC 2006
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> said:
>> Not all projects have a single entity holding all the copyrights on it.
>
> All "official" GNU software is copyright by the FSF. They could turn
> around and license future glibc versions under the GPL (or even GPLv3),
> elimating much of the distribution.
Not all of them.
>
> Is it worth worrying about _possible_ future license changes?
You trimmed out the rest of what I said which missed the point. If the
software is under GPL, there is already a patent defense provision in
it. Context is important.
It
> certainly is something to keep in mind, but I don't know that it should
> be the top thing.
>
> This does poibt out a good reason to not assign copyrights to others; I
> have never done that on my (mostly minor) patches to Open Source
> software.
Copyright assignment can be very beneficial to a project in many other
cases.
Rahul
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