From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 19 6:40:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907BB37B424 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 06:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA66948; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:39:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:39:51 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site In-Reply-To: <20000819083637.B16235@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > David Kelly said on Aug 18, 2000 at 20:50:41: > > Narvi writes: > > > > > > It is dual-licenced under SISL and GPL/LGPL. In the case it's a library > > > like thingy, it's LGPL. As Sun is going to have (just like FSF) of all > > > contributions be assigned to themselves, so supposedly all will be > > > available under > > > > In prior version of GPL didn't they say the revisions, even the original, > > was assigned to FSF? Version 2, June 1991, no longer says that > > directly. But as I've said in other posts tonight I believe the GPL > > still forwards full rights of all changes to the original copyright > > holder who is the only one who has the legal rights to impose GPL on > > his code or its derivatives. Or to not impose GPL at some point. > > Not true. Contributions to GPL'd code are copyrighted by the > contributor unless the contributor explicitly donates the copyright > away. This is one reason why emacs and xemacs will not re-unify > (unlike gcc and egcs) -- the xemacs team has not been asking > contributors to transfer copyrights to the FSF. > You are talking about a whole different issue than what David is talking about. He is talking about anonymous nonidentifiable contributions. > Rahul. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message