On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 15:19 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 19:44 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 10:56 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 10:43, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > > Except that what you contribute is not "their own software". They force
> > > > you to make it theirs in order to accept the contribution. So you are
> > > > participating in a project that uses the GNU GPL... without the
> > > > assurances it would give you.
> >
> > > like what assurances?
> >
> > For instance, promising to always distribute your contributions under
> > the GPL, for pain of loosing the copyrights over contributions.
>
> did you read the contract? I get the feeling you didn't.
Aren't you taking a lot of things for granted?
In exchange for your grant of copyright, Ximian does two things.
First, we promise to use the GPL or another Debian-endorsed Free
license for your code (although we may also grant other licenses on
other terms).
After passing the BS filter:
In exchange for your grant of copyright, Ximian does two things.
First, we promise to use any license we choose to.
Read it all:
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/copyright.html
Then to The Paper:
1.a) even contradicts the url above. It _does_ mention documentation.
1.c) shows the BS filtered output
4. is the pre-BS-filter version
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/copyright_form.pdf
I reached this "still ximian.com" addresses through the Novell pages,
looking for the contribution part. I expect that it is the same thing
that is used now (but if it is different please help me get the correct
information).
Link path:
http://www.novell.com/linux/ximian.html
http://developer.ximian.com/
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/contributing.html
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/copyright.html
Did you _read_ it, Jeff?
Rui
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