LWN.net Logo

Copyrights

Copyrights

Posted Sep 27, 2003 23:13 UTC (Sat) by hs (guest, #15495)
In reply to: Copyrights by Ross
Parent article: IBM Files New Claims Against SCO in Linux Case (Dow Jones)

afaik, IBM assigned its gcc (and related GNU projects) copyrights to the FSF (I think the FSF requires that for contributions to GNU projects, probably for good reasons). assigning rights to kernel code wouldn't make much sense: the kernel uses the GPL, but isn't a GNU project


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2012, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds