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Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)Posted Apr 20, 2005 20:26 UTC (Wed) by hmmm (guest, #28931)In reply to: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld) by Ross Parent article: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)
Its the stupid, stupid.
This is on a per application basis. Something like GCC expects you to sign over copyright for any contributions you want included into their distribution. You can always take their code, add you modifications, keep your copyright and distribute it without any problems, but if you want your code to make it into GCC 4.0 you need to sign over copyright so they can legally enforce the GPL on their software.
The FSF does not do this. The copyright owners do this. The same thing happens for the Linux kernel.
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Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld) Posted Apr 21, 2005 0:49 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] The FSF certainly does do this. Or, if you prefer, the GNU project does.All non-trivial changes require copyright assignment to the FSF in order to be incorporated into the FSF-distributed version. Of course you an fork, as that is your right under the GPL; that has nothing to do with who holds the copyright.
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