On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:27, plino <pedl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greg Stein wrote: >> >> how can you say that Apache >> "removes rights from people's contributions"? As a developer, you >> still own your code. You can do whatever you like with it. Apache >> doesn't take anything from You. >> > > Easy. Even a non-developer like myself can see that :) > > Compared to GPL (which is what Apache is asking developers to give up on) it > removes the right to be given back any improvement or fix to the code you > contributed.
As Ben has explained later in this thread, you never had that right. Ergo, Apache has not removed any rights from You. This is why I think the statement "removes rights from people's contributions" is wrong, or there is some other right that I'm unaware of. >... Cheers, -g -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
