Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>> I think having a single entity able to relicense the code base does
>> provide the community a benefit, which is why it's seen in other communities,
>> like the FSF copyright assignment for contributions to GNU projects,
>
> What the FSF tries to do is illegal: you cannot transfer the "Copyright" (*).
The FSF is located in the United States, not Europe, and a discussion of
the various types of copyright laws around the world has been had enough
times before that we don't need to have it here again. If you don't
like the FSF policies, complain to the FSF, not the OGB.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
