Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Rik van Riel
2002-10-20T22:40:53Z

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote:

> > 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.

I've heard this argument about BSD-licensed software, too.

"So what if somebody makes a commercial version ?
The free version will still be available..."

Rik
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