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Hardly seems draconian considering GNU has a copyright surrender requirement, and most large FOSS projects have style requirements.
by Subsentient 5y ago
Hardly seems draconian considering GNU has a copyright surrender requirement, and most large FOSS projects have style requirements.
- JNRowe 5y agoPainting GNU's situation¹ as somehow similar to that section of the README is absurd. Its purpose is to prevent the situation you describe, not only by committing to Free distribution but also by licensing your changes back to you(even for non-Free use). ¹ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=doc/Copyright/conditions.text;h=8ef01fbefad54184bc49f0c4fedc813123445e52;hb=HEAD http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=do...