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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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