Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:22:43AM -0400, George Nychis wrote:
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> George Nychis wrote:
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>> Another alternative is it residing in CGRAN for Doug and Dustin to  
>> update it to work with the current trunk, and once complete it can be  
>> integrated in to the main GR repo by you or whoever.
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> Side note, how does this work with FSF copyright?  If someone develops  
> something outside of the GR repo, and then you want to integrate it.  Do  
> you need an FSF copyright from them to pull in their code that is  
> already under GPLv3?
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Yes.  The license and who holds the copyright are distinct issues.

For inclusion in the gnuradio.org tree we require a copyright
assignment to FSF for all new code and modifications to existing
code.  This policy is based on a desire to ensure that there's only a
single entity on our side of any potential legal challenge to the code.

Eric