From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1999 - 09:27:07 EST
On Feb 10, 1999, Tim Wilkinson <tim@transvirtual.com> wrote:
> So let me get this straight - if you contribute code to us you
> cannot contribute that code to classpath? Why is this - is this the
> copyright nonsense they insist on?
I think so, but I'm not a lawyer, nor am I a specialist in U.S. law,
so I'm not 100% sure about the rights you retain when you assign
copyright of a piece of code to the FSF. I'd have to ask RMS, or you
could ask the TVT lawyer (I believe there is one, isn't there?) about
that.
> A minor legal point, but since we've not a licensee of sun we can put stuff
> wherever we choose - even in sun.tools.jar if we wanted.
That's good news. Then we can implement the Byte<->Char converters
within sun.io and be able to run Hotjava and other applications that
use them!
OTOH, it would be much polite to put things we don't really have to
within the sun hierarchy...
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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