From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 17 7:56:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11CA37B419 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 07:56:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (madman.nectar.cc [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43FAE2C; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:56:26 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by madman.nectar.cc (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBHFuPn86794; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:56:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:56:25 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Andrew Kenneth Milton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011217155625.GC7085@madman.nectar.cc> References: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> <200112160043.fBG0hbS18659@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112160043.fBG0hbS18659@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-Url: http://www.nectar.cc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message