Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:25:38 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: GPL violation ? Message-ID: <20040507082538.GK2201@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On May 6 19:02, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] > > Sent: 06 May 2004 18:47 > > > You do get a T-shirt for filing the assignment, which is > > intended to cover > > all of your subsequent contributions. > > Ah, that explains it. Yep, a t-shirt is definitely a "material > consideration" > > > In addition to the physical payment of a T-shirt, the > > developers get the > > goodwill of the community, although I don't think this could > > be counted as > > "consideration" under the above definition, no matter how good and > > valuable it is. > > And indeed, since the goodwill of the community does not belong to RH, it > isn't within their purview to give to anyone, and so can't be part of the > exchange. > > But the T-shirt does the trick. Hell, that's worth far more than a > peppercorn! Unfortunately only US contributors get the T-shirt these days. I'll try to get that straight again. Other than that, practically nobody of us IAL and I'm in contact with our legal department about the Cygwin copyright assignment. Let them do their job, we just care for the code, ok? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/