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Re: Who's maintaining CVS


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:13:38PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
>  > [...]
[...]
> But they cannot change the licence of code that's already out there. e.g.
> you can still get the version of eCos under the previous licence (RHEPL)
> if you want (it's in CVS).

Indeed. Still some contributors may not like the case where they submitted
code and it is then used in a commercial product, without the further 
improvements being given back to the community. This is the additional right
a central Copyright holder gains (and that I wanted to grant also to the
community in my changed contract proposal). But if you see this mechanism as 
a means to compensate Red Hat for all the development they invested themselves, 
there is some reason to it (although I do not believe it is the optimal way 
to recover the cost invested in writing Free Software).

[...]

I agree with your other comments.

Just to be clear, while I did make some critical remarks on the licensing
and contract schemes, I strongly appreciate the fact that Red Hat (and its
customers) have sponsored all this development and gave a large part of it 
back to the community.

Peter
[...]

> Jifl
> -- 
> --[ "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you ]--
> --[  can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Lincoln   ]-- Opinions==mine

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