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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:39:35 -0500
From: John Meinel <tla@johnmeinel.com>
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To: Zenaan Harkness <zen@cashpoolcomps.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU copyright assignment
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Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>More important than the fact that the forms are hidden---you don't
>>have to sign them if you don't like them, and they are negotiable if
>>the FSF wants your code bad enough, after all---is the fact that
>>authors' names are may be hidden.
> 
> 
> This is confusing, due to lack of grammar, and infuriatingly so, since
> it sounds important and I want to understand it. Please rewrite it when
> you get time so that I may understand what you're saying here.
> 
> 
>>In the case of the FSF, as far as I
>>know anything like that is inadvertant---they keep and publish good
>>changelogs---but it's theoretically possible.  This means that if you
>>want access to some code under some terms and the FSF won't give it to
>>you, you are unable to ask the authors to give it to you under the
>>"grant-back" clause.
> 
> 
> This sounds like you're saying "sometimes the FSF FiretrUCKs up, and
> loses correct attribution of code.
> 
> 
>>That probably doesn't bother anybody else here, but with respect to my
>>own contributions I dislike it.
> 
> 
> In which case, use tla and make sure you have a good clean record of
> your contributions in such case...
> 
> like, isn't that obvious ???
> 
> Please clarify
> Zen
> 

What I understand is that the FSF will allow you to contribute code, and 
then hide your name from the list of authors. (I'm not sure if that is 
by your request or not.) As the original author, you still have more 
rights than a regular user. But if a third party comes along and wants a 
different license for the work that the FSF won't give them, because 
your name is not on the list of authors the third party cannot contact 
you to get a different license.

Again, that was my understanding, and I could be (very) wrong.

John
=:->


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