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Re: Who's maintaining CVS
>
> - Jani surrenders any interests in the code with the disclaimer
> that answers the question: "Would you be willing to sign a
> copyright disclaimer to put this change in the public domain,
> so that we can install it in program?"
> (from http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_7.html#SEC7)
>
> So, since this procedure is documented on the FSF site, I believe
> they are not against the open source 'community' spirit.
Ok you're right I didn't know about this.
>
> You only need to make sure that you have the legal rights to
> give away all your "Copyright interests" in this code.
Well this is a right I am sure I don't have because the contributions
are not written from scratch.That's why I asked in an earlier mail whether
all BSD network stack authors signed such an assignment?I highly doubt that.
I think most legal issues arise when the license is GPL but with BSD or
more lax licenses there should be less fear.
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