On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Carlos Torres <vlaadbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Maxime Coste <frrr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:39:36PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >>> On 7 July 2014 21:24, Maxime Coste <frrr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Otherwise the tomatos that you harvest >>> in the summer in your garden might also become property of your >>> employer ;) >> >> It does not really apply to tomatoes, as you do not create intellectual >> property by growing them. I expect any intellectual property based work >> contract to contain similar clauses. >> > > hmm. in a similar vein, Monsanto holds patents for various corns and other > vegetables and are rumored to go around testing other peoples crops to sue > them and gain control of the crops that match genetically, whether its through > cross pollination or straight up usage of unregistered Monsanto seeds.
Which inspired http://www.opensourceseedinitiative.org/ by the way... I personally don't mind Google spending money on developing dmenu or other suckless projects. They are sponsoring other open source projects as well (see here https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014; which makes them more support-worthy than Microsoft in my book). I am no lawyer though, so I am not sure about the legal implications that would have (considering that the license does not change, I don't think there would be much of an impact). Regarding the patch itself, I don't think the functionality it adds belongs in the core of dmenu. Putting it onto the Wiki is the way to go.
