Re: BSD license vs. Evolution assigment (was Re: Copyright assignment)



On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 19:44 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 10:56 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 10:43, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > Except that what you contribute is not "their own software". They force
> > > you to make it theirs in order to accept the contribution. So you are
> > > participating in a project that uses the GNU GPL... without the
> > > assurances it would give you.
> 
> > like what assurances?
> 
> For instance, promising to always distribute your contributions under
> the GPL, for pain of loosing the copyrights over contributions.

did you read the contract? I get the feeling you didn't.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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