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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:56:25 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011217155625.GC7085@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200112160043.fBG0hbS18659@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> <200112160043.fBG0hbS18659@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:43:37PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I am aware that certain long-standing RMS-specific projects,
>     like emacs, require people who submit patches to sign-over their 
>     copyright, but I am not aware of people generally signing 
>     the copyright for their own GPL'd works over to the FSF.  RMS
>     wnats people to, but as far as I can tell most people have no
>     desire to.

All GNU projects appear to work this way.  Contributions/patches are
not accepted until you have completed paperwork with the FSF.

I didn't realize how common this was myself until I started hacking on
guile.  I don't hack on it anymore.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                     http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME           .      FreeBSD UNIX      .        Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net      .   nectar@FreeBSD.org   .           nectar@kth.se

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