Re: going further off topic (was Re: "keep non-free" proposal)
On 2004-01-30 07:45:57 +0000 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
wrote:
He's never named another individual who agrees with him on these
points.
I do not know the internal structure of the FSF USA nor its decisions
about this. RMS may be accurately reporting its view and able to
commit it to a view.
There was one other FSF person who appeared to have similar views
(Georg
Greve), but he had some much weirder and even more poorly defended
claims
which RMS never made, including the idea that it was legally
necessary in
France to prohibit modification of essays without the author's
consent.
Georg Greve is the president of FSF Europe and has worked on a robust
rights assignment document for European-based projects. He may have
more information which he could not publish in a timely manner, and
therefore left the discussion. A version 1.0 document is available at
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/fla/fla.en.html but there is little
background info so far, which is the relevant bit for this. It is
possible that some limits exist in France, but I still doubt that they
should be enforced by a copyright licence.
The FLA has a clause committing FSFE to only produce GPL and LGPL free
software from it. Last time I read a FSF Copyright Assignment (2002),
I don't think it had a similar clause. Sadly, the FLA only covers
computer programs, not documentation.
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