On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:24:50AM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: > Regarding the concept of taking the copyright of code: it's what the > FSF have been doing since 1992 with Emacs. The difference here is > that if you feel strongly about it, you get to keep your copyright.
The FSF asks contributers to sign a copyright assignment. You don't have to, and it's not at all a condition of the GPL on emacs. It's just that the FSF won't integrate your patches without one. I assume Best Practical wants to do something similar, and it's just coming across wrong.
