Contribution agreements (Re: [sldev] What is the point of firstlook and giving feedback to LL)

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Tue Apr 22 23:13:10 PDT 2008


> On 4/21/08 9:21 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [Justin Ryan wrote:]
> >     You won't get any contributions from me directly as a
> >     member of the F/OSS community to a project where you can take credit
> >     for my code, and decide without my permission to use it as part of
> >     your business, without compensation.
> >
> > If I were the author of a change, the crucial question for me would be
> > whether my change might be released in a non-free version of the
> > program.  The worst outcome would be that some of my code might be
> > available to users _only_ in a non-free version.  So I would seek to
> > put something in the contract to rule that out.

People love to constantly vilify RMS as some kind of radical extremist.
But every time I actually read his words he seems like a pretty sane
reasonable guy to me. People spend too much time listening to his
followers and critics, and not enough time listening to RMS himself.
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