From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 18 20: 6:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 332BD37B423 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26549 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2000 03:06:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 19 Aug 2000 03:06:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 16263 invoked by uid 211); 19 Aug 2000 03:06:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:36:37 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Kelly Cc: Narvi , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <20000819083637.B16235@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: David Kelly , Narvi , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200008190150.UAA54560@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008190150.UAA54560@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:50:41PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly said on Aug 18, 2000 at 20:50:41: > Narvi writes: > > > > It is dual-licenced under SISL and GPL/LGPL. In the case it's a library > > like thingy, it's LGPL. As Sun is going to have (just like FSF) of all > > contributions be assigned to themselves, so supposedly all will be > > available under > > In prior version of GPL didn't they say the revisions, even the original, > was assigned to FSF? Version 2, June 1991, no longer says that > directly. But as I've said in other posts tonight I believe the GPL > still forwards full rights of all changes to the original copyright > holder who is the only one who has the legal rights to impose GPL on > his code or its derivatives. Or to not impose GPL at some point. Not true. Contributions to GPL'd code are copyrighted by the contributor unless the contributor explicitly donates the copyright away. This is one reason why emacs and xemacs will not re-unify (unlike gcc and egcs) -- the xemacs team has not been asking contributors to transfer copyrights to the FSF. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message