Francesco Poli <f...@firenze.linux.it> writes: >> p.s. I think the FSF in general plays it quite fair; I'd treat a >> for-profit company with a lot more skepticism. > > I don't think that requiring copyright assignment from contributors is > a fair game, not even when practiced by the FSF. > However, if you trust the FSF to always take "good" decisions on > licensing matters (I don't), you are of course entitled to your > opinion...
Of course, as are you. I'm not really defending assignments, but simply saying that _given_ the assignment policy, the FSF has kept the trust put in them (but I don't think I'd put the same amount of trust in a for-profit entity). While the FSF assignment policy itself has obvious negatives, it _is_ an attempt to deal with real issues (i.e., it's not a pointless power-grab), and I don't think it's very clear which alternative is better or worse in general, or if there _is_ any general right answer. -Miles -- The key to happiness is having dreams. [from a fortune cookie] -- 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/buozksznhhw....@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com