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Re: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:44:04PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 14 August 2006 17:04, mwoehlke wrote:
>
> It's time we took this discussion to the licensing list, so if anyone wants
>to carry it on please take note of the "Reply-To" header that I have set.
>
>> Darryl Miles wrote:
>>> I do have questions, they may seem daft, but this issue is legal thing
>>> so the finer points are important:
>>> [snip]
>>> I'd be happy to put the bugfixes for this particular problem in the
>>> public domain, thus confirming my original legal entitlement to
>>> copyright and waivering that right. Which would may waiver anyone elses
>>> future rights to copyright as well. This would seem a compatible
>>> solution which would allow contributions without needing to enter into a
>>> copyright assignment agreement. Since my name wont be listed anywhere
>>> on the published work (since as I read the agreement it would be
>>> replaced by RedHats anyway) I might as well make the contribution public
>>> domain.
>>
>> IANALTYMSIEIAATS...
>> My understanding is that if you place it in Public Domain, then anyone
>> can do anything with it and no one can stop this. IOW RedHat would be
>> safe because no one can prevent them from using Public Domain material
>> in any manner or fashion.
>
> That's not what "safe" means. If the program is in the public domain,
>rather than RH having the copyright assigned to them, then anyone could take
>it, make a proprietary version and distribute it without the sources, and RH
>would not be in a legal position to enforce the GPL on it because they would
>not be the copyright holder.
>
>[ ... rest of message safely ignored - TITTLL! ... ]
I'm not sure what more needs to be discussed, really. I think that
Corinna has already said that if someone can't sign the agreement "as
is", there isn't much that can be done. It's a virtual certainty that
Red Hat is not going to allocate time from one of its lawyers to talk
about Cygwin licensing with some Cygwin end user.
We've been making this point repeatedly for years so maybe it is time
for this to become a FAQ.
cgf
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