[sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?

[Corax]

Tim Shephard wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 7:10 PM, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> You're only subject to the GPL if the code is licensed to you under the
>> GPL - ESC bought a commercial license from LL.
>>     
>
> Yeah, it's a great business model.  Contribute code and give up all
> your copyrights to LL who then in turn sell your free code for money
> to ESC.
>
> Its' a great trick if you can do it..
Is this true?  If I contribute code to LL, do I have to give up my 
rights to license it only under the GPL?  If so, then I guess I will not 
be contributing any code to LL, because I will only license on my own 
terms, which is most likely GPL.  I don't want LL or anybody else 
stealing my code to sell it to someone else, and I haven't heard that LL 
was paying people for code they contribute, nor are they paying people 
for all the work done in tracking down and reporting bugs.  Yeah, great 
business model!

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