Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > Just in case this is an issue. I freely give all of my patches and > changes to the R source code to whomever holds or keeps the copyright/ > rights for this project. If it matters I have not signed any FSF > agreements but I have done so with Sun for OpenOffice.org and would > be willing to do so for this project.
AFAIK there are only two common reasons for assigning-copying over (instead of having just a license notice saying somebody can do as he/she wish with your code as you intended) is (1) possible copyright infringement is imminent, and the R core team needs to sue somebody on your behalf (2) dual-license/commercial licensing - i.e. the R core team want to relicense R with a different license, then they need to have the copyright to do that. situation (1) is rather unlikely for R, but you never know - historically, the FSF uses that argument to request all changes to GCC to be signed over, I think. As for (2), Sun people for obvious reasons want to get you to sign over copyright, because they want to relicense the openoffice code under the commericial staroffice license. I don't think either (1) or (2) applies too closely to R, but then, this is just my opinion... HTL ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
