Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 12:34:38 EST


>
> The whole point of the copyright assignment is that FSF becomes
> copyright owner.
>
> This is so that Jeff Garzik cannot be strongarmed into changing the
> license on his code, or some other anti-software-freedom tactic levied
> against me in the future. In theory, the FSF as an organization will
> protect the rights of the software when I might weaken and give in.
>
> 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.

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