A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall AT gmail.com>]

Speaking as a FSF licensing volunteer and someone who heard Eben
Moglen himself say so yesterday at Stanford, I can say that the FSF
plans on releasing tools (under the GPL) and best practices documents
to allow developers of free and open source software to better keep
track of the pedigree of their code.

This is an issue with many projects, the kernel named Linux being the
most prominent and likely most difficult to eventually resolve.  Other
projects (e.g., JBoss) have the same problem and copyright assignment
to one legal entity makes relicensing (under other FOSS licenses
and/or future versions of a current license) *vastly* less
complicated.

best, Joe

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:01:55 +0100, Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com> wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2004, at 20:45, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
> > On 26 Aug 2004, at 17:38, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The FSF announced a little while ago that they would release
> >>> their (legal) tools for supporting this process,
> >>
> >> References?
> >
> > From the horse's mouth:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/subpoena.html
> 
> And here's how it works in practice:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_4.html
> 
> 
> 
> - Rob.
> 
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