Re: Copyright assignment

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Rui Miguel Seabra <rms 1407 org> wrote: 

> 
> Foundation board, would you please look into this subject?
> Should the Foundation pressure Novell into assigning copyright to the
> FSF or GNOME Foundation?
> And changing the copyright assignment rules to match this change?
> 
> The Main Problem[tm] I see is that even though the GNU GPL gives us some
> assurance to fork, some of the main developers, however, could probably
> be locked out of development on the Free Software version, and that
> would be a strong nuisance.
> 

This is true regardless of whetever there is a copyright assignment or not. 
Companies can tell their employees what (not) to work on regradless of copyright
ownership. The assignment to gnome foundation (which in itself would be a good 
thing) does not guard against this at all.

> Regards, Rui
> 
> -- 
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> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
> + So let's do it...?
> 
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