Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:28:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:28:36 -0400 Received: from blowme.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.140]:56076 "EHLO blowme.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:28:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:34:38 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Richard Stallman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Message-ID: <20021020173438.GK696@phunnypharm.org> References: <20021014170248.A19897@infradead.org> <20021015193138.A4010@infradead.org> <200210161856.g9GIu57t013710@santafe.santafe.edu> <20021016201328.A24882@infradead.org> <20021019161201.A26017@work.bitmover.com> <3DB1EAAB.30401@pobox.com> <20021020154609.GD696@phunnypharm.org> <3DB2E661.8070802@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DB2E661.8070802@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1154 Lines: 29 > > The whole point of the copyright assignment is that FSF becomes > copyright owner. > > This is so that Jeff Garzik cannot be strongarmed into changing the > license on his code, or some other anti-software-freedom tactic levied > against me in the future. In theory, the FSF as an organization will > protect the rights of the software when I might weaken and give in. > > But in exchange for that protection, you are willingly giving up your > rights as copyright owner... Less freedom for [hopefully] better > protection. Just like everything in life, it's a tradeoff... :) > I disagree. I don't see anything in the copyright assignment (and I have signed a few for the FSF) that says I don't retain original copyright for my work. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/