Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Russ Allbery
2002-10-20T19:47:34Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> If you keep a copy locally, sure. But the upstream sources, i.e. what's
> important, you lose rights to even though you may have contributed
> substantial amounts of code. 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. You're
> left with a code fork based on the last GPL sources and/or the patches
> you've kept locally.

Jeff, have you read an FSF copyright assignment?

It doesn't just say "I give you all rights to my work so that you can do
whatever you want with it."

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>