Re: Copyright assignment



On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:56 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:

> Imagine: Sun buys Novell, and acquires Evolution code.  Evolution code
> is licensed to Microsoft under a proprietary license.  Evolution code
> gets included in the next version of Outlook.  The GPL normally would
> protect us from the scenario; under copyright assignment it would not.

If Evolution code replaced Outlook code, I think the benefit for world
email security would outweigh any other concerns :)





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