On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:31:08AM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > When you GPL a piece of software, you sign over your rights to the FSF.
> > Therefore, there is very little that can be done about this;
> > from a legal perspective, the FSF _itself
> > determines what is and what isn't construed as a derived work.
> Microsoft would _love_ the world to think that GPL is like that.
> I`m sorry this is a plain FUD.
I think this restriction (the need for copyright assignment) only
applies to code 'incorporated in FSF projects', whatever that
means. See the GPL FAQ for a rather vague explanation.
Are 'FSF projects' the packages that can be downloaded from ftp.gnu.org?
mark
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