Tugger the SLUGger!SLUG Mailing List Archives  Re: [SLUG] Re:
Copyright assignment + the GPL [Was: Streaming media servers]
<quote who="QuantumG">  > Well the point of the GPL (over a BSD-
like license) is to ensure that the > source code for all
distributed changes are available and are freely >
distributable.  Which is the case, even if the copyright owner
distributes the software under another license.  > So yes,
although your specific changes are available to the community,
all > the changes that the new copyright owner distributes under
a proprietary > license are not.  The community doesn't own
them, nor has a claim to own them. The copyright holder gets to
choose the license -> if they choose to distribute their
software under a FOSS license at all, you should be grateful!  >
You might be ok with this, but I think it's just paying lip
service to the > GPL without actually accepting the concept of
software freedom.  I strongly disagree with this sentiment. The
copyright owner has gone so far as to relea