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xemacs, yeh

xemacs, yeh

Posted Nov 9, 2010 17:47 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: xemacs, yeh by coriordan
Parent article: LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership

Perhaps it is not the policy itself, but the fact that people trust the FSF.

The exact same policy might not work as well for other organizations.


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xemacs, yeh

Posted Nov 9, 2010 18:37 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

That's certainly one factor.

Another factor is that FSF's is a two-way agreement in which they promise that the versions they publish will be under a free software licence. In that way, they're setting a good example which should be followed.

Bradley Kuhn blogged about this before:
http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/01/copyright-not-al...

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