Re: Non-free software and GNOME



La plume légère, à Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:42:39PM -0500, heure d'inspiration,
Raja R Harinath écrivait en ces mots:
> AFAIK, very little of the GNOME software is signed over to the FSF.
> However GNOME is still part of the GNU project (it says so on the
> www.gnome.org website, and that's what the 'G' was supposed to stand
> for).

Being a GNU project doesn't mean the copyright has to be transferred.
Those are totally separate issues.
Copyright transfer to the FSF is only a "facility" for people who don't
have enough money to help them enforce their license ifever this get
needed.


Wolfgang

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