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Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF
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Michael Banck |
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Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:12:34 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 02:19:12PM +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> writes:
>
> > I don't mind that, but I also think the Hurd is not a tactical FSF asset
> > anymore that needs to be kept under tight control. The FSF has enough
> > copyright in the Hurd that it can enforce it whenever it likes, even if
> > other people's copyrighted code (as is already the case with the pfinet
>
> I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
>
> 1. Without copyright assignment of all code involved, enforcement
> becomes much harder.
I don't think "much harder" can be quantified in a meaningful way,
seeing how parts of the Hurd aren't under the FSF copyright at this
point, anyway.
> 2. The Hurt still provides capabilities other OS’es don’t — while
> maintaining POSIX compatibility. We’ve seen audacity basically
> being taken over by a company in the past months, so the danger of
> losing Hurd to proprietarization rather got bigger than smaller.
Nobody proposes that the FSF relicenses the Hurd to a non-copyleft
license before relinquishing the copyright assignment mandate, so I
don't see how the Hurd continueing to be under a GPLv2+ license will
ever be able to be taken proprietary.
I'm not going to respond further on this thread, this is starting to get
off-topic really quick and if there are further things to be discussed,
gnu-system-discuss or whatever other mailing list is likely the better
place.
Michael
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, (continued)
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- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Samuel Thibault, 2021/08/13
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Svante Signell, 2021/08/14
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Samuel Thibault, 2021/08/14
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Joan Lledó, 2021/08/15
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, 2021/08/13
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Ivan Shmakov, 2021/08/13
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Michael Banck, 2021/08/14
- Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF, Sergey Bugaev, 2021/08/14
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