Agree
Agree
Posted Sep 19, 2002 11:21 UTC (Thu) by Peter (guest, #1127)In reply to: Agree by leonbrooks
Parent article: Releasing old software into public domain.
I'd be annoyed if I copylefted something significant, handed it over to the FSF, and later they copycentred it.
Well, that's the choice you made and the risk you took. It's like Saddam Hussein using your GPL software to run the alarm systems at his microbe factories. You previously decided that the benefits of releasing under the GPL outweigh the drawbacks of contributing to such activities. So with signing away your copyrights: the benefits of helping out an official GNU project are perceived to outweigh the risk of disagreeing with the FSF about how best to husband the copyright.
Personally I would not sign away the copyright to anything I feel as strongly about as you seem to. Problem solved. (Actually I write very little software that I could be said to care that much about, so the point is largely moot.)
By the way, should we take your statement to mean that you are in favor of copyright terms longer than 15 years for computer code? I would find that position rather hard to defend, given the pace of the industry.
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