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Getting grubby with ZFSGetting grubby with ZFSPosted Dec 8, 2010 1:30 UTC (Wed) by cyd (guest, #4153)Parent article: Getting grubby with ZFS
It should be noted that the FSF's copyright assignment guidelines are not inflexible. Emacs, for instance, contains code and files that are (C) the Japanese government, the W3C, the Unicode Consortium, etc. Exceptions are handled on a case by case basis, but they're not really rare.
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Getting grubby with ZFS Posted Dec 8, 2010 1:43 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] They are a lot less flexible with code that will be linked into the application that is not part of a standard library; ordinarily they want to own that.
Getting grubby with ZFS Posted Dec 9, 2010 10:50 UTC (Thu) by wingo (subscriber, #26929) [Link]
As another example, Bazaar is GNU but its copyright is assigned to Canonical. The Canonical contributor agreement that you have to sign to get code into GNU Bazaar even expressly allows for your contribution to be used in proprietary software.
So the FSF is indeed flexible when it wants to be.
(FWIW, I consider the bzr case to be a fairly important error that needs to be corrected.)
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