Subject: Re: Another reason to go GPL
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 09:43:46 EST
On 2001.03.28 09:03:19 -0500 Jeffry Smith wrote:
> Be aware that GNU/FSF != GPL. Linux is under a GPL license, but the code
> is NOT GNU controlled. Samba is under the GPL, but is NOT GNU
> controlled. GPL does NOT require any loss of copyright control to the
> FSF, unless you specifically grant them the rights (which they require
> for GNU projects).
To further reinforce this- GPL does NOT stand for GNU Public
License, it stands for General Public License. As stated previously, the
attitude of the project maintainers, does is not because of which license
they use. I've tried to sumbit patches to a lot of BSD-esque license
projects- Some of them get accepted, some of them don't (same with GPL
licensed, Mozilla licensed, etc.). Every *project* is unique, and has
nothing to do with the underlying license.
-- Matthew Keller Enterprise System Analyst Computing & Technology Services Information Services Division State University of NY at Potsdam
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