(4) In other places they claim they're doing this because GNU, Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as well [1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs, libstdc++), but by far not all; and I have heard first hand that Debian not only does not require it, but they don't even have an entity one could assign copyright to even if one wanted to. (Does anyone know about the BSDs?)
None of the BSDs require copyright assignments. Requiring copyright assignments is a good practise though. But I think the Gentoo Foundation could need to polish it a bit so that they grant back the rights to the person who wrote the code too. On a related subject, we have developed a kernel mode driver for our Microsoft Wireless Optical Mice with Tilt Wheel Technology, complete with device file in /dev and all needed ioctls necessary for querying signal strength, battery life status, and other misc. statistics, for Linux, that we have now ported to the OpenSolaris kernel (hence the xpost to c.u.s). My question is, is the same type of copyright transfer needed to get this driver into OpenSolaris proper? How would we handle code shared between the Linux and OpenSolaris driver? You should ask the copyright holders of Linux, and respectivley OpenSolaris. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
