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From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: License wars
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:31:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E31242E.5090305@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iswen6ga.fsf@mail.ru>



Dmitry Bely wrote:

> 
> It's only possible if you don't accept any patches from other people. The
> patch's copyright is holded by its creator, so you cannot distribute entire
> product under different license without the written permission from anyone
> who contributed some code to your project.

There actually exist free software projects--major 
ones--where contributors are asked (or forced) to donate 
their copyright to the managing foundation or company. In 
this context, the developer can do whatever he wants with 
his code and that of the contributors alike.

Alex

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-16 10:30 [Caml-list] ANN: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web Matt Gushee
2003-01-16 12:30 ` Mattias Waldau
2003-01-16 12:45   ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-01-16 12:51   ` Jérôme Marant
2003-01-20 13:55   ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2003-01-20 16:46     ` License wars (was Re: [Caml-list] ANN: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web) Matt Gushee
2003-01-20 17:22       ` Brian Hurt
2003-01-22 16:57       ` [Caml-list] Re: License wars Michaël Grünewald
2003-01-23 10:43         ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-01-24 15:31           ` John Max Skaller
2003-01-20 19:49     ` [Caml-list] ANN: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web Mattias Waldau
2003-01-20 20:37       ` Brian Hurt
2003-01-24  4:19         ` [Caml-list] Baby Steps (was: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web) Oleg
2003-01-24 10:59           ` Michal Moskal
     [not found]             ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301241322390.2036-100000@eagle.ancor.com>
2003-01-24 20:54               ` Michal Moskal
2003-01-24  5:33 ` [Caml-list] Re: License wars Matt Gushee
2003-01-24  8:46   ` Sven Luther
2003-01-24 11:16     ` Dmitry Bely
2003-01-24 11:28       ` Sven Luther
2003-01-24 11:31       ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]
2003-01-24 16:16         ` John Max Skaller
2003-01-24 15:49     ` John Max Skaller
2003-01-25  9:54   ` Michaël Grünewald

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