Re: [DotGNU]Copyright waivers for developers?

[Bill White]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:32:28PM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > Bill White wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is this likely to be a feature of DotGNU?  I don't see how the
> > > dotgnu project can succeed if you require all your developers to
> > > choose between contributing and being employed.
> 
> There's always the option of being self-employed, or starting a
> self-corporation and employing yourself.

I don't think it matters.  If you are associated in any way, either
as a consultant, a student or an employee, with any organization
not the FSF you have to have a copyright waiver for your work to
appear in FSF projects.

I take it from your comments that the copyright waivers will
be required.  That means effectively that you are only interested
in contributions from people who are unemployed.  That seems
curious, but I suppose it's your game, and you can play it
how you wish.

I'm willing to take the risk that my employer will not sue me
individually.  My employer supports free sw - our customers
depend on it, and we have to use it.  People in my company
have contributed to the Linux kernel, which requires no such
copyright.  There ought to be some way that somebody could
contribute pieces on their own hook, and let the user
or the installer program incorporate them.  That is to
say, the installer program could get some DotGNU components
from SourceForge, some from the other repository, and
some from other places around the net.
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