> 2. yes, FSF doesn't accept e.g. non-paper-worked contributions to > free software it maintains, e.g. Emacs.
The obvious point, if we must belabor it, is that an organization like FSF would "never" take an open source program to which it held an assigned copyright and re-license it under a commercial license. The FSF's intentions and practices are very different from Sun's. Sun is explicitly asking for copyright assignment so that it can re-license the contributions under a commercial license to anyone it chooses. Many potential contributors would consider assigning copyright to a foundation such as FSF to be very different than assigning copyright to a corporation such as Sun for their commercial use. For that reason, comparisons between Sun's practices and the FSF's practices, or comparison to the practices of any similar non-profit or foundation such as the Apache Project, etc., are not very relevant and are in fact misleading, IMPO. Allen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
