<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rahul Sundaram</b> <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Adams wrote:<br>> Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> said:<br>>> Not all projects have a single entity holding all the copyrights on it.
<br>><br>> All "official" GNU software is copyright by the FSF. They could turn<br>> around and license future glibc versions under the GPL (or even GPLv3),<br>> elimating much of the distribution.<br>
<br>Not all of them.<br><br>><br>> Is it worth worrying about _possible_ future license changes?<br><br>You trimmed out the rest of what I said which missed the point. If the<br>software is under GPL, there is already a patent defense provision in
<br>it. Context is important.<br><br> It<br>> certainly is something to keep in mind, but I don't know that it should<br>> be the top thing.<br>><br>> This does poibt out a good reason to not assign copyrights to others; I
<br>> have never done that on my (mostly minor) patches to Open Source<br>> software.<br><br>Copyright assignment can be very beneficial to a project in many other<br>cases.<br><br>Rahul<br><br>--<br>fedora-test-list mailing list
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</a></blockquote><div><br><br>Back in the day, <a href="http://mpackage.org">mpackage.org</a> was setup, how about pushing all *mono* stuff to it, and clearing Fedora of any issues that might come up?<br></div><br></div><br>