Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:07:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:07:30 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:20885 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:07:29 -0400 From: Richard Stallman To: jgarzik@pobox.com CC: bcollins@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <3DB2EBCD.8090405@pobox.com> (message from Jeff Garzik on Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:45:49 -0400) Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Reply-to: rms@gnu.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> <20021020173438.GK696@phunnypharm.org> <3DB2EBCD.8090405@pobox.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:13:37 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 16 IOW if binutils goes off in a direction you don't like, for example the FSF changes the license from GPL to Microsoft EULA, you don't have any say in the matter whatsoever. FSF copyright assignments place a number of limits on how the FSF can use the code, including limits on what sort of licenses we can use. If we did what you have in mind, we would be violating all these contracts (as well as our charter). I wrote the contracts this way so that contributors would not have to rely entirely on our good intentions. - 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/