Re: SCO identifies code?
%% Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes:
>> Actually this would not be a problem since the FSF never "hires"
>> anyone to write code with that kind of employment contract.
>> Whenever you write GNU code it's always copyright to you: before
>> the FSF will accept it as part of GNU you must assign copyright to
>> them. _BUT_, when you do they always give you back a license to
>> use the code in any way you wish, including incorporating it into
>> other, proprietary programs or releasing it under other licenses.
bs> As I said in another message, at least for some packages (emacs
bs> and gcc) it is the FSF's stated position that they want copyright
bs> assignments or code in the public domain. I don't know anything
bs> further than that about the matter.
It so happens I know a lot about it, from personal experience, and what
I'm saying is that this is true for _all_ software that is copyright by
the FSF, not just Emacs and GCC. They will not accept any non-trivial
code unless you assign copyright to it, and they will always give you
back an unrestricted license to use whatever you contributed.
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