Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:37:44 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000819152739.68978L-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200008190150.UAA54560@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Kelly wrote: > 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. > I'm pretty sure Sun knows what it is doing. So yes, theretically it might be (for all I know) that those not playing nice by the other rules get to meet with GPL ... > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > Everything written is strictly my own oppinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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