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Re: Are copyright assignments detrimental to eCos?
Hi, Andrew,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > I just was told that the eCos copyright assignment is not to RedHat
> > or eCosCentric, but to the FSF.
> >
> > That falsifies my statements about the RedHat sales droids, I presume,
> > although there are still the "for other licenses, contact RedHat"
> > statements scattered over the web and source.
>
> Yes, that statement is slowly being eradicated. When ever i touch a
> file i tend to remove it. At some point we will wholesale remove the
> rest, but that means touching nearly every file, so it is a big change
> to CVS. So this is likely to happen at the same time we change the
> Copyright notice to FSF which again needs to touch every file in the
> repository.
One of that statements is:
| For information on obtaining alternative licences for JFFS2, see
| http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/jffs2-licence.html
And that page on the web says "For information on obtaining alternative
licences for JFFS2, contact Red Hat directly.".
Maybe changing that information on the website is a quick&dirty way to
break up the path of misleading statements. :-)
Regards,
Markus
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