Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Even FSF projects require some sort of contributor agreement for
>> contributions of a certain scope to gcc, etc.
>
> FSF does the same thing for the same reasons that SCA does. It has
> nothing to do with assurances of original authorship, and *everything*
> to do with making sure that there is a single copyright owner who can
> change the license at any time. (This allows FSF to globally change the
> GPLv2 to v3 on its projects, for example, without requiring individual
> authors to sign another agreement.)
>
> BSD projects don't do this, btw.
They may not require it, but some do allow it - for instance, the NetBSD
Foundation last year changed the license on all the code which contributors
had donated the copyright to them. (Dropping one of the previous BSD
license clauses.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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