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Copyright Assignment / Sharing

Copyright Assignment / Sharing

Posted Mar 11, 2008 5:55 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Copyright Assignment / Sharing by jamesh
Parent article: OpenOffice.org moving to LGPLv3

I agree with your sentiments, I would in general prefer the FSF way as well. Just a minor
addition, though, regarding

> With the FSF agreements, there is a clause requiring the Foundation to
> distribute the work under a free software license.

The Sun agreement has the same type of clause. That is, both are committed to releasing the
project under a FOSS license. Sun however, in *addition*, releases it under a proprietary
license.


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