Re: non-gcc linux?

Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-06T07:31:59Z

Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 23:42:25 +0100, Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> >> for SGI, or SGI would have to be willing to assign some code to FSF.
> >
> > Which is the standard procedure that the FSF requires for all it's
> > programs to be able to defend them
>
> ... or sell them under a different license. Not that they would, but they
> could, if they really wanted to.

The wording of the standard copyright assignment to the FSF binds the
FSF so that it can only release the code under a free software
license.

Eric