Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
From: Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]>
To: Kendall Bennett <[email-masked]>
Cc: cygwin users <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:37:38 -0700 (PDT)

--- Kendall Bennett <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > The FSF is an entity that will supply a legal arm *if* you assign
> > your copyright to the FSF.  The GPL is a statement of rights for
> > the use of a given piece of software, it does not require the
> > assignment of the copyright to the FSF.  The FSF nor the GPL take
> > away the right to earn money, charge fees or create commercial
> > licenses (if you retain your copyright). 

Ahm... Did you miss the qualifier:  (if you retain your copyright).

> 
> Sorry, but the FSF does *not* allow you to create commercial licenses 
> for GPL software. Sure you can sell it, charge money etc but you 
> can't sell commercial (ie: proprietry) licenses to any FSF controlled 
> code.
> 
> As DJ said the FSF itself *could* if desired sell commercial licenses 
> to their code, but they don't and won't because it is against the 
> founding principles of free software and the FSF. As I also said, if 
> the FSF did do this, the entire free software community would be up 
> in arms.
> 

But, only if I give them the right to by assigning the copyright to them.  As
DJ also pointed out, take a look at paragraph 10.

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