From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 18: 5:23 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 35D4637BBBE for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 18:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 31705 invoked from network); 14 May 2000 01:04:58 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 14 May 2000 01:04:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 23879 invoked by uid 211); 14 May 2000 01:04:57 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 06:34:57 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam.iisc.ernet.in Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514063457.A23845@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam.iisc.ernet.in, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <200005140054.RAA17178@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005140054.RAA17178@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 05:54:02PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Just to make sure that everyone understands what you're saying, if you make > changes to some "core" GNU software (gcc or emacs), GNU project will > not incorporate the code, unless you reassign the copyright to FSF. But if you absolutely hate that idea, you can fork the code (eg xemacs). You need to assign copyrights to the FSF only if you want your changes to enter the "official", FSF-maintained code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message