Hi, On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 08:52 -0500, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Same with the FSF. E.g., Classpath hackers must sign a document > granting the FSF copyright. This is so the FSF can be allowed to > distribute Classpath without getting explicit permission from > every author (which would be very unweildy). But the original > authors still are allowed to distribute their own work too, > even under a non-free license, if they want to.
Yes. The idea is that the contribution is a gift to the Free Software community in the first place. So the standard contract has a clause that permits you to use your code even in proprietary programs. The FSF does ask to get a 30 days' notice so they know and have a record of all code they distribute that a contributor also distributes under another license. You don't need to invoke this clause in order to distribute copies as free software under the GNU GPL, since everyone is allowed to do that of course. Cheers, Mark -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
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