www/philosophy assigning-copyright.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/07/13 21:47:00

Modified files:
        philosophy     : assigning-copyright.html 

Log message:
        Make it clearer that this page applies to licensing the copyright
        as well as to assigning it.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/assigning-copyright.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.16&r2=1.17

Patches:
Index: assigning-copyright.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/assigning-copyright.html,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -b -r1.16 -r1.17
--- assigning-copyright.html    12 Apr 2014 12:39:58 -0000      1.16
+++ assigning-copyright.html    13 Jul 2014 21:47:00 -0000      1.17
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 releasing a purely proprietary version is outright wrong, like
 any other proprietary software.</p>
 
-<p>Companies normally sell exceptions using code they themselves have
+<p>Companies normally do these things using code they
 developed.  Since they hold the copyright on that code, they can
 legally distribute it in any manner, even in multiple manners in
 parallel.  But what happens when you publish a modified version of
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
 about what you sign, or you may be surprised by the results.</p>
 
 <p>The company will probably invite you to assign or license your
-copyright to the company.  That in itself is not inherently bad; for
+copyright to the company, by signing a copyright assignment contract
+or a contributor license agreement.  That in itself is not inherently bad; for
 instance, many GNU software developers have assigned copyrights
 to the FSF.  However, the FSF never sells exceptions, and its
 assignment contracts include a commitment to distribute the
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:39:58 $
+$Date: 2014/07/13 21:47:00 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>