FSFE Newsletter - February 2014

Nikos Roussos comzeradd at fsfe.org
Wed Feb 19 10:32:41 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:03 +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Hugo Roy <hugo at fsfe.org> wrote:
> > > > Second, this is not about whether people prefer BSD/MIT-style
> > > > licenses or (A/L)GPL-style. This is about assigning your copyright
> > > > to an entity in a way that makes it possible for that entity to
> > > > decide on their own if they want to release as proprietary
> > > > software or not something that include your contribution.
> > > 
> > > This doesn't require copyright assignment, though. The same can
> > > and does happen with what you refer to as liberal licenses.
> > 
> > Yes, and so? I don't understand your point. What we are talking
> > about here is *copyright assignment*, nothing else.
> > 
> > > >                                                           It may
> > > > very well be possible that the whole is never released as Free
> > > > Software at all, whether under a liberal license or under a
> > > > protective license.
> > > 
> > > Again, this doesn't require copyright assignment.
> > 
> > And so, what's your point? 
> 
> My point is that in case of permissive licenses the licensee is
> already free to reuse the software as part of a proprietary product
> and thus doesn't need copyright assignment.

It does if you want to re-license the whole product (without asking the
contributors) or even worse turn it to proprietary.

~nikos
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