Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU copyright assignment

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>

    > 4. He pulls the code out.

    Thomas> Again, my understanding is that, given the quanities
    Thomas> involved here, replacing unassigned code with assigned is
    Thomas> certainly a winning thing to happen, when it does, but
    Thomas> won't be a priority.  There isn't a rush to pull out
    Thomas> unassigned code, at all.

That's right.  After all, the process I described would probably take
at least a year even if you went at it with a passion.

You do want to keep working at it, though, and you should make sure
that all code is at least upward compatible with licenses.  I don't
know when GPL v3 will come out, but if it does the FSF will be mildly
annoyed if a nominally FSF-owned GNU project can't upgrade because a
couple of non-assigners licensed their code GPL v2 "period".  That
kind of thing.

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