Re: GPL and NDAs

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From: Isaac
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00

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On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 03:47:27 GMT, Christopher Browne 
<cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org> wrote:
>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.
>
Hopefully you are getting a good laugh from all the silly discussion :}

>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.*
>

Noone is talking about ownership of the software.  People are discussing
ownership of machines that software is installed to discuss a particular
distribution problem.   People are additionally talking about ownership
of copies of software which obviously does have significance in copyright
law.

Isaac

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From: isaac@latveria.castledoom.org (Isaac)
Subject: Re: GPL and NDAs
Date: 2000/02/01
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