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Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
- From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 18:59:04 -0800
- CC: Cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: SciTech Software, Inc.
- References: <200005011535256.SM00160@KENDALLB>
DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
> > So now ask yourself this question: Why does Cygnus require you to
> > assign copyright to them and not the FSF?? So they can sell
> > commercial licensed versions of all code contributed to the Cygwin
> > core library.
>
> A related question - why does the FSF require you to assign
> copyright to them?
For FSF projects this is specifically so that they control the
copyright on all source code, and can ensure the source would never
be used for commercial purposes.
There are tons of GPL'ed and LGPL'ed projects out there that are not
owned by the FSF, but simply have the GPL license applied with the
copyright own by multiple developers and contributors.
Regards,
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