On 8/22/05, Martin Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh. Now I understand. Well, any of those choices ought to work. > > > Another variant is a prominent notice on the SVN server front page that > > > anyone who submits code there automatically grants GPL. You'll run any of > > > these ideas past the company lawyer anyway, of course. > > > > Too bad I don't have a company lawyer. :) > > Wouldn't Linus or Stallman be able to answer these questions? > > They most have faced similar concerns when developing Linux and GNU?
Yeah. I'm not sure I want to pester them, and they'd both probably refer me to someone with a bar license anyhow. Linus probably wouldn't be very interested. Stallman thinks that anything that isn't Free Software ALWAYS is evil. I'm not sure how he think about the hardware distinction, but what I need is traditional attorney. ESR may be able to give a more objective answer. Stallman's cool, but I don't see eye-to-eye with him on everything, and trying to apply his ultimate ideal to this project could destroy it. I am doing this project so that we can apply his ultimate ideal to SOFTWARE. Hardware is another matter. (Actually, Stallman's ideal is the GPL. Any software (BIOS, drivers, etc) I write will be released under BSD and MIT licenses; if others want to convert them to GPL later, that's fine, but for the sake of making this technology ubiquitous, I'm going to go with a more ESR-like tack. I most definitely want BSD and Windows drivers.) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
