"In the wake of Apple's purchase of CUPS, there is a simple lesson to take away -- if you are a developer committed to open source and you wish for your contributions to always remain open, do not reassign copyright to an external party."
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lindi
1 year 24 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago
Good point. Just remember that
Good point. Just remember that if you reassign copyright to FSF you get a signed contract where they promise not to make your program proprietary:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnulib/doc/Copyright/assign.manual?re...
(Yes, the link is for manuals, I couldn't find the exact terms for programs yet.)