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Re: Gentoo Linux copyright / CDDL question


From: Ceri Davies
Subject: Re: Gentoo Linux copyright / CDDL question
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:12:42 GMT
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On 2006-10-18, Mike Cox <mikecox_linux@yahoo.com> wrote:

> (4) In other places they claim they're doing this because
> GNU, Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as
> well [1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs,
> libstdc++), but by far not all; and I have heard first hand that
> Debian not only does not require it, but they don't even have an
> entity one could assign copyright to even if one wanted to. (Does
> anyone know about the BSDs?)

FreeBSD absolutely does not require copyright transfer.  I don't know
about the other three, but I don't believe it's the case there either.

Ceri
- -- 
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