Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2006-10-18, Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (4) In other places they claim they're doing this because GNU, >> Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as well >> [1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs, >> libstdc++), but by far not all; and I have heard first hand that >> Debian not only does not require it, but they don't even have an >> entity one could assign copyright to even if one wanted to. (Does >> anyone know about the BSDs?) > > FreeBSD absolutely does not require copyright transfer. I don't > know about the other three, but I don't believe it's the case there > either.
I don't think a copyright transfer makes even remote sense without an identifiable legal entity as the recipient. When a project is "community-driven" like Debian, this would not really seem the case. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
