On 25 April 2010 18:48, Michael Witten <mfwit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:33, Richard Kenner > <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: >> There's nothing to have a problem WITH! No assignment has taken place. >> The statement on the web has no legal significance whatsoever. Unless >> the company SIGNS something, they still own the copyright on the code >> and can, at any time, decide they don't want it distributed. > > If I submit a patch to the GCC project---necessitating an assignment > of the copyright to the FSF---then can the people of the FSF decide > that they don't want me to distribute my own work in another project > (proprietary or otherwise)? > > That is, could I actually become liable for infringing on the > copyright of my own original work? Are we just trusting RMS not to be > a troll (tongue-in-cheek)?
This is explicitly mentioned on the copyright assignment form from the FSF. And the answer is NO. On the other hand, when the assignment is implicit like for LLVM, I really don't know. You need to ask your own lawyer (not the ones from Apple or from the U. of Illinois). Cheers, Manuel.
