Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Menachem Shapiro as of Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:34:39AM -0700: > > > * You have the freedom to distribute modified versions of the > > program, so that the community can benefit from your improvements. > > Assigning rights back to the owner lets you do this as well, but > that is seen as objectionable to a lot of people these days.
Presumably, because the author can turn into a moocher and take your code you assigned over and turn into a proprietary license. I don't trust even the FSF to not pull a stunt like that. > If everyone were college students, it would be grand. Just what we need, more code written by drunken grad students. During the million-dollar BIND 9 rewrite, Paul Vixie characterized the original BIND code as ``sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of U C Berkeley grad students.'' -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
