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From: "Masterson, David" <David DOT Masterson AT kla-tencor DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode det
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:45:49 -0700 
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That's a rhetorical question, right?  The answer in both cases is so that
the original copyright holder (ie. the person creating the original
software) cannot later change their mind with respect to the copyright and
put new licensing restriction onto their software.  In the case of the FSF,
they require that the software be GPL'ed and remain GPL'ed (they are a
"not-for-profit" corporation, right?).  In the case of companies (including
Cygnus), once they are assigned the copyright, couldn't they put
restrictions on the software that would be to their benefit as far as sale
and redistribution of the software?

-----Original Message-----
From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj AT delorie DOT com]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 4:35 PM
To: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com
Cc: Cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode
determined ...



> So now ask yourself this question: Why does Cygnus require you to
> assign copyright to them and not the FSF?? So they can sell
> commercial licensed versions of all code contributed to the Cygwin
> core library.

A related question - why does the FSF require you to assign copyright
to them?

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