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Question about copyrights

Question about copyrights

Posted Dec 14, 2006 3:06 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
Parent article: FSF pledges $60,000 to the Free Ryzom Campaign

The original LWN article suggested that the copyrights might be transferred to a commercial entity in addition to the GPLed release. There's no guarantee the company would continue to treat their releases as free software, and they would be the only party which could act on copyright violations.

Wouldn't that make this buyout less than optimal?


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Question about copyrights

Posted Dec 14, 2006 4:26 UTC (Thu) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link]

I dunno, I'd doubt the FSF would be pledging that much money if they didn't know exactly what they were going to be paying for.

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