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Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)

Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)

Posted Apr 21, 2005 0:49 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld) by hmmm
Parent article: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)

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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