From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 15 23: 7: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569C937B416 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:07:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBG76uc19777; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:06:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112160706.fBG76uc19777@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Andrew Kenneth Milton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD References: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> <200112160043.fBG0hbS18659@apollo.backplane.com> <3C1C2BD7.577C5506@mindspring.com> 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 :The way ReiserFS does this is to affix a contract to the CVS change :submission, or require that the contract be manually affixed to any :email submissions. : :The rights are assigned, with the terms being "in consideration for :examination of the submission" (it's not a contract unless there is :consideration and exchange). : :The FSF handles this slightly differently, but the practical matter :of the assignment is in effect the same. : :-- Terry Yes, and I'm planning on doing something similar with the Backplane Database. It's a good idea, just not a good idea to assign your own works to someone else (e.g. not the FSF). The FSF can do whatever they want with their own code and can ask contributors to assign rights to them, but it is totally inappropriate for them to ask people to assign the copyright for other unrelated GPL'd works to them. Also, the latest version of the GPL in my view weakens it terribly. The way it reads, the copyright is not the copyright in the file but the latest copyright on FSF's site (which theoretically allows the FSF to update the copyright and have the new version automatically apply to preexisting works). I don't think it's even close to being legal. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message