Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:06:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3C1C2BD7.577C5506@mindspring.com> References: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> <200112160043.fBG0hbS18659@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > I am aware that certain long-standing RMS-specific projects, > like emacs, require people who submit patches to sign-over their > copyright, but I am not aware of people generally signing > the copyright for their own GPL'd works over to the FSF. RMS > wnats people to, but as far as I can tell most people have no > desire to. The way ReiserFS does this is to affix a contract to the CVS change submission, or require that the contract be manually affixed to any email submissions. The rights are assigned, with the terms being "in consideration for examination of the submission" (it's not a contract unless there is consideration and exchange). The FSF handles this slightly differently, but the practical matter of the assignment is in effect the same. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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