"Frank Hecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >
> I might add that people aren't suspicious of just AOL. It's pretty rare
> for open source / free software developers to assign copyright on their
> code to a commercial company. IMO the reasons developers are willing to
> assign copyright to the FSF are because a) the FSF is not a for-profit
> organization; b) they trust Stallman and the FSF to "do the right
> thing"; and c) the FSF assignment contracts contain some legal
> guarantees about the particular licence terms under which the FSF will
> distribute the code.
I find it quite amusing that Sun (albeit on the openoffice.org site) ask
contibutors to assign copyright to themself for much the same reasons as the
FSF do.
http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/assign_copyright.html
John
