On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 18:01 +0100, Sander Vesik wrote: > --- 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. Not true. Companies can't forbid what an Evolution developer does with his free time unless what they develop might interfere with an Anti- Evolution (the hypothethical proprietary version) MUA. Please don't reply to me here. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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