But anyway, to get back to the real question, are there any groupware projects going on for Fedora ? :-) On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 19:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 15:13 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 18:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:54 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > > > > > > With some seriously ugly hacks i got it to compile and run, of course > > > > still a lot of bugs but when it would be a real community project (no > > > > copyright assignments, and no CC-non-commercial license) I think it can > > > > be made to work with gcj. > > > > > > Many community projects including all of the GNU ones require copyright > > > assignments. That is on many occasions a good practice. > > > > And it is also a PITA to do paperwork before you can help with a > > project. This about if everybody that helps with Fedora has to sign > > legal paperwork, which of course is different in every country. Of > > course if you want to sell the GPL work of others under a closed source > > license like MySQl, Qt, Open-Xchange, than you need to be the copyright > > holder. So the main thing copyright assignment does is turn GPL code > > into BSD-like code (be it for a smaller group, the ones the copyrights > > are assigned to). A true community project has no need for copyright > > assignment. > > Incorrect. Any project (not just those dual licensed) would be benefit > from a better legal stand point by retaining the copyright over all > contributions > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html > http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt > > > Rahul > > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
