Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Posted Sep 22, 2006 19:33 UTC (Fri) by jgarzik (guest, #8364)
In reply to: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3 by sp.at
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

In practice, the vast majority of the GNU codebase requires copyright assignment, including all major projects (binutils, gcc, glibc).

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Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Posted Sep 22, 2006 21:26 UTC (Fri) by jbailey (guest, #16890) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, but that was the choice of the original authors in every case. The trick with the major projects is that they were almost all started / funded by the FSF.

Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Posted Sep 22, 2006 22:55 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

When in the past I sent in patches to FSF code, I was asked to sign over my copyright of that patch to the FSF for it to be accepted. This was listed by others I asked as the standard FSF practice. I think this is what they are referring to.

[I can patch binutils all I want, but if I want the official binutils to have those patches.. I have to reassign the copyright to the FSF.]