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Re: Copyright assigments for the GNU system.
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: Copyright assigments for the GNU system. |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:15:02 +0200 |
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> this might be a bit early, but it will still have to be done some day.
> How should copyright assigments be handled for the GNU system? By GNU
> system I mean tools like the package manager/builder, installer, etc.
> Not things like GCC, Emacs, etc. In short, tools that we will
> develop.
>
> Should it be one project that people assign their copyright for, or
> several small ones? The latter might be more work for the FSF staff,
> I don't know.
To me it seems the best to bundle those projects like it was done for
coreutils. I don't see the advantage of having some separate
projects, while they are maintained by the same group of people and
are tightly connected.
> How should things that we canniablaise from other projects be handled?
> Like right now I'm cannabialising Nick Moffitt's code from GAR. The
> code I will write will be easy to transfer the copyright for, but I
> have no idea about Nick's code... Haven't asked him yet either.
If you are using his code and if you want people to assign copyrights,
better ask Nick. :)
--
Marco