Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes: > Gerber van der Graaf <gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor > >> transfers his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software: > >> actually it's what the FSF does... :-( […]
> p.s. I think the FSF in general plays it quite fair; I'd treat a > for-profit company with a lot more skepticism. Bradley Kuhn contrasts the two in a recent weblog entry <URL:http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/01/copyright-not-all-equal.html>; he argues that the FSF's approach is good. Michael Meeks gave an interesting presentation on the effects of copyright assignment, using examples of OpenOffice vs LibreOffice and other cases <URL:http://lwn.net/Articles/414051/>; he argues that even the FSF's copyright assignment requirement is harmful without any benefit to free software. -- \ “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though | `\ nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” | _o__) —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3px85n7.fsf...@benfinney.id.au