On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:14:51AM -0500, Al Davis wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:04 am, Matt Ettus wrote: > > Don't do it!!!! > > > > Whatever you do, don't do it! > > > > By making it a GNU project all you are doing is giving away > > your own rights. > > Not true. > > > > From: Anand Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > - Copyright need not be assigned to FSF. It is only > > > required if you want FSF to defend in the court in case of > > > GPL violations. - Any GPL compatible license will do. > > > - Project need not be hosted under Savannah. > > I agree that you should not assign the copyright. If you don't > assign the copyright, you don't give away your own rights. > Even if you do, gnu grants your rights back to you. This isn't > part of GPL. It is part of the assignment agreement. > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:20 am, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > So here we are today: a large code base that no one person > > owns the full copyright to. And that's the way I like it. :) > > I like it that way too. > > It should also be hosted at several places, not just as mirrors. > You want it so that if one site, perhaps the main site, is > lost, the project continues. If there are enough primary > sites, the project cannot be shut down. >
Apart from the technical and law details, GNU makes overall good impression on me. I would personally like gEDA and PCB be pronounced GNU projects (just for the feeling). GNU means a standard of relatively high quality in free software for me. Cl<
