Re: Language Setup Document (Re: Text drawing bug - gaps after 16th character ...)

[Adam Fedor]

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 08:45 AM, Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote:

> Stefan Böhringer wrote:
>
> > > It might be the one I privately sent to Adam Fedor several weeks ago.
> > > The code I added to the source sums up a few hundred lines, making
> > > the source code twice as much as it is. So I have to deal with
> > > some legal stuff together with the Free Software Foundation for the 
> > > patch
> > > to be applied to GNUstep officially. I asked the FSF to send me a 
> > > form for
> > > that procedure. But I haven't received it yet. That's why I can't
> > > make it public.
> >
> > Certainly you can. It's just that GNUstep will not incorporate the 
> > patch
> > until you refrain from copyright.
> Thank you for your comment.  But I'm still wondering if I can 
> relinquish
> the copyright to the Free Software Foundation *unilaterally*.  Have 
> you ever
> done like this before?

I'm not sure what you mean here. The copyright for something can only 
be 'owned' by one person or entity. You give the copyright to the FSF 
so we can incorporate the code into GNUstep. However, in the document 
that the FSF asks you to sign, they will give back to you non-exclusive 
rights to the code you contributed. So that, for instance, you can use 
the code somewhere else (for instance in a non-free program, if you 
wish(1)).


(1) Of course that only applies to the code you contributed, not the 
rest of GNUstep.