From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:06:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210201505330.3420-100000@dberlin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021020154609.GD696@phunnypharm.org>
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:28:43PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >
> > At the potential cost of getting flamed, I think it is worth pointing
> > out that the FSF's copyright assignment policy on several of their
> > projects is _very_ anti-freedom. You are required to relinquish all
> > your rights to your contributions, in exchange for the hope that the FSF
> > will protect them.
>
> Jeff, they don't force you, they require it to be turned over to them
> for inclusion in the FSF proper upstream source. Also, it doesn't mean
> that you lose your rights to the original piece. You can still reuse
> your own source as the copyright owner.
Not quite.
The reason you can reuse is only because they grant the right to use (and
sublicense, etc) back to you as part of the contract.
You are *not* the copyright owner anymore, however.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-20 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-13 22:48 Bitkeeper outragem, old and new Richard Stallman
2002-10-13 22:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 23:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-14 7:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-13 23:43 ` Rando Christensen
2002-10-14 0:18 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-14 6:49 ` Kristian Koehntopp
2002-10-14 7:38 ` Tim Hockin
2002-10-14 11:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-14 11:37 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-14 16:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <E181WHl-00010N-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20021015193138.A4010@infradead.org>
[not found] ` <200210161856.g9GIu57t013710@santafe.santafe.edu>
[not found] ` <20021016201328.A24882@infradead.org>
2002-10-19 22:45 ` Bitkeeper outrage, " Richard Stallman
2002-10-19 23:12 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-19 23:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-20 15:46 ` Ben Collins
2002-10-20 17:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-20 17:34 ` Ben Collins
2002-10-20 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-22 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-25 0:27 ` Andrew D Kirch
2002-10-20 19:15 ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 21:42 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-20 21:51 ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 22:20 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-20 22:23 ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 22:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-21 0:26 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-21 14:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-21 15:18 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-22 11:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-22 8:19 ` Kristian Koehntopp
2002-10-22 11:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-20 22:52 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:59 ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 23:04 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-21 0:38 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-20 22:59 ` Ben Collins
2002-10-20 23:04 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:47 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:51 ` Brad Hards
2002-10-21 7:51 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-21 15:04 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:46 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 19:06 ` Daniel Berlin [this message]
2002-10-19 23:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-20 8:37 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-20 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-20 17:20 ` Jon Portnoy
2002-10-20 22:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 23:05 ` John Jasen
2002-10-21 0:13 ` Matt D. Robinson
2002-10-22 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-22 3:18 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 3:38 ` Murray J. Root
2002-10-22 5:26 ` [OT] " Hacksaw
2002-10-22 5:39 ` Murray J. Root
2002-10-22 6:09 ` Hacksaw
2002-10-22 6:12 ` David Lloyd
2002-10-22 13:30 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-22 16:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 20:24 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-20 21:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-21 2:42 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-21 2:20 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-21 3:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-21 3:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-22 20:16 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-21 9:39 ` jbradford
2002-10-21 15:08 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-20 1:14 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-20 2:00 ` Jon Portnoy
2002-10-20 2:18 ` Murray J. Root
2002-10-20 8:38 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-20 2:46 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-20 5:58 ` Zac Hansen
2002-10-20 8:40 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-20 9:00 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-10-20 9:06 ` David Lang
2002-10-20 9:21 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-20 15:08 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-21 12:46 ` jbradford
2002-10-22 19:24 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-22 19:53 ` [FLAMEWAR] Bitkeeper waffle jbradford
2002-10-20 12:42 ` Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-10-20 15:05 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-20 8:33 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-21 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-21 17:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-10-22 20:13 ` Allen Campbell
2002-10-22 20:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-10-22 22:28 ` Allen Campbell
2002-10-23 7:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-23 7:24 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-24 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-14 16:55 ` Bitkeeper outragem, " Jeff Garzik
[not found] <fa.f8i4p2v.1imcdgq@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ebbrv0v.kjq1pk@ifi.uio.no>
2002-10-20 19:53 ` Bitkeeper outrage, " Russ Allbery
2002-10-20 20:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-20 21:39 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] <fa.l1b0ccv.p34qob@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.h9pconv.14mklqe@ifi.uio.no>
2002-10-21 11:02 ` walt
2002-10-21 13:46 ` Roman Zippel
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