Gerber van der Graaf <gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com> writes: >> I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor transfers >> his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software: actually it's >> what the FSF does... :-( > > I didn't know that and that's quite strong. Do they also erase the names > of contributing authors, as OpenCFD is requiring?
All that gets changed after assignment to the FSF is the copyright statement. No "erasing" that I'm aware of. [E.g., if you look at many lisp files in the GNU Emacs distribution, they contain an "Author: ..." line that is the original author(s).] -Miles p.s. I think the FSF in general plays it quite fair; I'd treat a for-profit company with a lot more skepticism. -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/buoeiadlem7....@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com
