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

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:36 -0700, Justin Ryan wrote:
> You have a lot of reading to do.  The problem is frankly that it is
> unethical and illegal without proper permission to take Free Software
> and turn it into Open-Source.  I simply have a lot of trouble
> believing that everything contributed under this agreement will be an
> original idea, not derived from another GPL work that someone not
> agreeing to these terms have rights over.

The "FLOSS" world has been fighting against "intellectual property" for
some time now. The FSF/RMS wants to eliminate the idea entirely. So what
is with this sudden trend of using the idea of "intellectual property"
to drive a wedge between "free software" and "open source" projects?
When did we become enemies? This is completely un-necessary,
hypocritical and ultimately self destructive.

This thread proves it is not just BSD people, the GPL zealots are doing
it too. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you people?

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
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