On 03/22/2011 03:28 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > You can't be "aware" of a negative, unless you can prove it.
I don't need to be aware of a negative. I merely need to see evidence of a positive to believe something. > In that > case you were only unaware of the deal, which you post facto decided > to call "an informal agreement", despite it being characterized as a > written promise. I don't see it characterized as a written promise. If you are aware of a written promise, then do point me to it. Otherwise, I have no reason to believe that. > Again, do you have any evidence to back up your belief? Or should we > just take it at face value? Nope. See below. > Looking at the releases in > http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/ ... version 2.3 was > "Copyright (C) 1988 Richard M. Stallman", version 4.03 was "Copyright > (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc." In 2004, Ghostscript > left the GNU project and changed it's name from GNU Ghostscript to GPL > Ghostscript. Yes. This is not a coincidence. Aladdin started practising dual licensing at this point. FYI, a joint copyright is not the same as copyright transfer. > The rest of your of your statements are non-sequiturs to what I said. > True, but irrelevant to the points you were replying to. It is very much relevant to the business model., That is the primary point you are missing. If Aladdin did transfer copyright to FSF, how can it license the code under a different license? The basis of my argument is that if a entity is practising dual licensing as a business model, they must either have sole copyright of the entire codebase or any third party contributions must be under a permissive license. If Aladdin transferred copyright to FSF, they simply would have no legal right to license the code-base under any other license. The mere fact that they did is proof that no copyright transfer happened and you are wrong. As simple as that. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
