Re: request-tracker3: license shadiness
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:24:50AM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> Regarding the concept of taking the copyright of code: it's what the
> FSF have been doing since 1992 with Emacs. The difference here is
> that if you feel strongly about it, you get to keep your copyright.
The FSF asks contributers to sign a copyright assignment. You don't have
to, and it's not at all a condition of the GPL on emacs. It's just that
the FSF won't integrate your patches without one.
I assume Best Practical wants to do something similar, and it's just
coming across wrong.
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