> At 15.39 09/11/01 +0000, you wrote: > > > BTW wich is the position of Freenet Project Inc > > > on releasing Freenet under GPL ? > > > >Freenet is under the GPL, allways has been.enet > > I am happy to have this confirmation; I obviously already found > the license in the sources. > > There are some things to correct to have a perfect use of GPL, > first of all the inclusion of the license in ALL distributions > of ALL parts of Freenet, but, considering the present state > of the developement, I think that is a minor problem. > > But I were unable to understand the document that Freenet > Project Inc. ask all developers to sign, to take over the > code. It seems to me a double etched doc, and I were > unable to understand his purposes. > > Can you explain me the situation from this point of view ?
Please note that I have no real connections to Freenet Project Inc. Also, I am not a lawyer. The document that was signed by developers was to give partial ownership (or possibly complete ownership, I didn't read it carefully enough) of Freenet's code over to the Freenet Project Inc. non-profit. You see, if the developers had complete ownership over their code, and somebody decided to sue them, the non-profit couldn't do anything about it because they legaly don't have any connection to that code (imagine what would happen if there wasn't such a protection; I could come up with some "damages" and sue people "pirating" Microsoft Windows. The courts would be totally bogged down). By signing that document, the non-profit does have a legal connection to the code and thus can get involved in such cases. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
