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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
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