Proposals for mono-basic and monodoc

[Rahul Sundaram]

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