Copyright assignments to FSF and licensing code to TVT

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Sat Feb 13 1999 - 14:26:23 EST

Hi

I've been consulting RMS about the discussion we've had recently, and
this is what he wrote... 

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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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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:40:45 -0500
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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
Subject: Re: Your statement about GNU Classpath...
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References: <org18ex4ot.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br> <199902121153.GAA05327@psilocin.gnu.org> <ork8xndd4t.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br>
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    But then, if someone contributes that same piece of code to GNU
    Classpath, he must assign the copyright of that code to the FSF.  When
    s/he does it, does s/he lose the rights to release her/his code under
    other licenses, particularly, to license it to Transvirtual?

No, because our assignment lets the contributor have unlimited
nonexclusive rights if the contributor wants.

Also, if the contributor has already licensed it to someone else,
that license remains valid when the copyright is assigned.

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