%% Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bs> From what I've read on the FSF website their position is that they won't bs> accept any submissions unless they are: bs> a) public domain bs> b) copyright released to the FSF
You mean either (a) or (b), of course. That's correct. bs> I don't know the specifics I haven't given them code, that's what bs> they say in their docs. Now maybe they keep the copyright and give bs> the programmer a license to do whatever they want, Yes, that's exactly it. They give you a non-restricted license to use the code you wrote any way you want. But, you no longer have copyright to it. bs> The reason being that if they don't own all the code on their bs> software they believe it can undermine any possible court bs> case. That is a big reason why GNU emacs won't accept some code bs> from Xemacs because they won't sign over the copyright. Not quite: it's true that they won't accept XEmacs code due to copyright issues, but I don't think it's a matter so much of XEmacs saying they won't do it, as that in the XEmacs code it's not clear who has copyright and tracking down all the people that _might_ have copyright and getting them to sign has proved too daunting for the ROI. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
