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I suppose that's a good argument for open-source-style licensing. What you're describing fits Linux perfectly, and I don't think any driver author has tried to
by sabat 16y ago
I suppose that's a good argument for open-source-style licensing. What you're describing fits Linux perfectly, and I don't think any driver author has tried to pull that. Also: authors are perfectly free to write up licenses that allow use until the copyright term is up.
- roel_v 16y agoWrong. Recent (as in, this millennium) Linux kernel contributions require all submissions to be under an open source license. For GNU, the FSF has recommended since the beginning that the copyrights of all GNU contributions be assigned to the FSF. They have documents for download on their website and the whole shebang. "Also: authors are perfectly free to write up licenses that allow use until the copyright term is up." Well that negates the whole point of the non-transferability doesn't it. If people are allowed to license all rights they have to a third party, until the end of the term, then what's the difference with transferring the copyright outright?