On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:29:05PM +0200, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
There is however nothing strange or unusual going on here, because FSF has the same solution for their contributors. The real problem here is
As I remember, they don't claim copyright on contributions. I must give away my work but I still own the copyright
this is not the case,
check here: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_5.html#SEC5 and here: http://korea.gnu.org/people/chsong/gd/conditions.text (this is the first copy i could find of the file conditions.text referenced above.)
if you assign the copyright, you do not get to keep it.
quote: signing the assignment does not stop you from distributing the program yourself--as long as you do so under the GNU terms
greetings, martin.