[sldev] Upcoming viewer releases?

[Dale Glass]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:18:54AM -0700, Dzonatas wrote:
> It may be true that there is a legal requirement, but that requirement 
> falls outside of the Open Source Definition. Open Source carries the the 
> virtue of being non-discriminatory.

Technically, it doesn't.

If I understood correctly, this agreement is only needed for LL to
accept your patches. If you don't sign it, you can treat it as GPL2
(which obviously complies with the "Open Source" definition), except LL
won't merge your patches into the official viewer.

AFAIK, "Open Source" includes nothing that makes the original creator to
have to accept your patches.

Also, it's my understanding that GNU requires transferring copyright to
the FSF. That's how they manage to be able to switch all their software
to the next GPL version when they need.

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