From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 4 18:36: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86D337B408 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:36:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=d5d38d46e27364a1d94882f642b9a4a8) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15HSuy-0000nc-00; Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:20:52 -0600 Message-ID: <3B41F0E4.B55E6937@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:20:52 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: j mckitrick , Giorgos Keramidas , Dirk Myers , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? References: <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010630173455.T344@teleport.com> <20010701032900.A93049@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010701132353.W344@teleport.com> <20010702152649.A18127@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010702180222.A2667@hades.hell.gr> <20010702161055.A18543@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010702172448.I4896@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > j mckitrick said on Jul 2, 2001 at 16:10:55: > > > > Well, that's a big piece of the puzzle, for me anyway. If the GPL can be > > removed by the copyright owner, maybe it's not so evil after all. > > It cannot be "removed" by the copyright owner, but the copyright owner > can dual-license it, or release an enhanced version under a different > license. Yes, the copyright holder by definition holds the right to specify how copies can be made an used. That's what "copy" "right" means. A complication for open source projects: if you have accepted contributions of code (bug fixes, new features, etc) from others, and have not specified that all contributions become your property, you may not be able to issue the code under a new license without getting the permission of all of the contributors. This is why the FSF asks for copyright assignment for the GNU tools; it allows them to control (prevent) the issuance of the code under other licenses. It's a great idea if you can get your contributors to do it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message