Re: Another job for the Gnome Foundation ?
- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian collab net>
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
- Cc: Jim Gettys <jg pa dec com>, Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>,foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Another job for the Gnome Foundation ?
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:31:21 -0700 (PDT)
On 21 Aug 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> However, this makes the code effectively not GPL. One reason many
> hackers like the GPL is because that way their contribution can never
> be used in proprietary software. Copyright assignment to a for-profit
> company dilutes this to some extent.
Who's talking about assignment to a for-profit? I thought we were talking
about assignment to the Foundation; and if the Foundation is a non-profit,
then its assets can only be redistributed to another non-profit if it
dissolves. Are you talking about OpenOffice and Sun? Sun's intent is
that there comes to be an non-profit OpenOffice foundation, too, I think.
Clearly I'm out-opinioned on this, despite evidence that this has
been a good thing for Apache; I'll shut up now I guess.
Brian
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