Re: [Ilisp-devel] Important: ILISP License Change Questionnaire

[Paolo A. <am...@mc...>]

Apologies for the duplicate, but I haven't received any reply yet, and I
need this information in order to answer all of Kevin's questions.

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:36:14 -0700, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:

> This posting is a "best faith attempt" to determine if there are any
> ILISP contributors who object to a more free license for ILISP. As
[...]
> another goal will be to have copyrights in the ILISP project be
> reassigned to the Free Software Federation (Appendix 3). At this
[...]
> - DO YOU OBJECT TO HAVING ANY COPYRIGHTS THAT YOU OWN IN THE ILISP
> - PROJECT BEING REASSIGNED TO THE FREE SOFTWARE FEDERATION? 
> - (BENEFITS OF REASSIGNMENT CAN BE FOUND FOUND AT THE URL
> -  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html AND ARE REPRODUCED IN
> -  APPENDIX 3)

What are the practical implications of this for ILISP developers? I guess
the copyright information in source files would be changed.

But I wonder whether the project should be required to use FSF facilities,
such as CVS repositories, and follow their coding conventions/policies.


Paolo
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