Hi all, All the best wishes for 2005, that gEDA and friends may prosper.
Besides, all things that have been said and have not been said about GPL and the FSF, __if__ there are any conflicts to be solved in a legal manner, the most simple solution is to have __one__ representative for gEDA and not several (dozens) of them. If the FSF is that representative that's OK with me, the decision is not up to me. If being a GNU project gives more exposure and awareness in the main stream, even better. Anyway, I don't consider myself to be one that needs a represenative for above things, everything posted by me to this list and/or contributed to gEDA is freely given (as in free beer __and__ freedom of speech). I think it boils down to: If you think something is yours Set it free If it comes back to you, it's yours If it doesn't, it never was or "Nothing I have is truly mine" -- Dido (Life for rent) Just my EUR 0.01 (and no, I won't send an IMO for that ;-) Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karel Kulhavy Sent: woensdag 5 januari 2005 11:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gEDA: gEDA as a GNU Project On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:14:51AM -0500, Al Davis wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:04 am, Matt Ettus wrote: > > Don't do it!!!! > > > > Whatever you do, don't do it! > > > > By making it a GNU project all you are doing is giving away > > your own rights. > > Not true. > > > > From: Anand Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > - Copyright need not be assigned to FSF. It is only > > > required if you want FSF to defend in the court in case of > > > GPL violations. - Any GPL compatible license will do. > > > - Project need not be hosted under Savannah. > > I agree that you should not assign the copyright. If you don't > assign the copyright, you don't give away your own rights. > Even if you do, gnu grants your rights back to you. This isn't > part of GPL. It is part of the assignment agreement. > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:20 am, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > So here we are today: a large code base that no one person > > owns the full copyright to. And that's the way I like it. :) > > I like it that way too. > > It should also be hosted at several places, not just as mirrors. > You want it so that if one site, perhaps the main site, is > lost, the project continues. If there are enough primary > sites, the project cannot be shut down. > Apart from the technical and law details, GNU makes overall good impression on me. I would personally like gEDA and PCB be pronounced GNU projects (just for the feeling). GNU means a standard of relatively high quality in free software for me. Cl<
