From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 19 6:37:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7576A37B423 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 06:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA66936; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:37:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:37:44 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site In-Reply-To: <200008190150.UAA54560@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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