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Article #23095Re: GPL and NDAs
From: Christopher Browne
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00
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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Isaac would say: >Ownership may not be essential, but certainly when ownership changes >there can be no question that distribution has taken place. When >a change of ownership does not take place, then further analysis is >required. The notion that this has anything much to do with ownership is Just Plain Silly. Note that the FSF does not require that people "transfer ownership" of code to the FSF; if you make significant contributions of code to FSF-related projects, you are required not to give ownership, but rather to *assign copyright.* Copyright != ownership. -- "We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love..." -- R. Fulghum cbbrowne@ntlug.org - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b75,6e7c0786c7ba904e X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,92d97b78a13510de X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org (Christopher Browne) Subject: Re: GPL and NDAs Date: 2000/02/01 Message-ID: <slrn89cls7.p69.cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org> X-Deja-AN: 580193480 References: <y4902dyklq.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <84ga7c$mih$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net> <1999Dec30.151712.1@eisner> <386BD144.22362F3A@gmx.de> <o5wvpubn8g.fsf@tofu.to.cygnus.com> <386E890B.1B191CB@gmx.de> <o5iu1bnlr9.fsf@toenail.to.cygnus.com> <3871419C.7D23AE72@gmx.de> <38805954.BC45E825@quiotix.com> <qhu2kefjv0.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <38819C4C.BD383DFD@quiotix.com> <qh7lha9fms.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <38839E3D.22DE182E@gmx.de> <qhwvp8paaw.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <388F8A3B.19C57187@home.com> <86pjhm$crf$1@justus.ecc.lu> <m2k8kryeac.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk> <871va3$dm3$1@pyrite.mv.net> <3894AE0F.7DD7547C@quiotix.com> <3894EB2B.EC6F5A45@home.com> <389540A7.6012E51F@quiotix.com> <slrn89b8nb.4u.isaac@latveria.castledoom.org> <3895A4CD.F8E08937@quiotix.com> <slrn89c420.62.isaac@latveria.castledoom.org> X-realname: Isaac X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-newsgroup: gnu.misc.discuss X-Trace: sv2-9jK0qJk0K7mo61/RoBpf8sv1OiQydkvWrYfphyCIJA7Iq64qtFvZkM0FP0W4aSIZIR5YT8e/jjFmgO8!Zm1zcUXGqs5NhaaTOUgHnS0= Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: cbbrowne@hex.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:47:27 CST Newsgroups: comp.arch,gnu.misc.discuss