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On Wed, 27 September 2006 17:18:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In fact, most programmers _still_ probably > don't care. A lot of people use a license not because they "chose" > it, but because they work on a project where somebody else chose the > license for them originally. s/most programmers/some programmers/ While I can only speak for myself, I definitely had to make a decision a couple of times without starting a kernel myself. Red Hat wanted me to sign a piece of small-font paper assigning my copyright to JFFS2 over to them. My thoughts at the time were along the lines of "What the fuck!!" and I had a lot of thinking to do, but didn't sign it. My graph traversion code I did for my thesis should have been merged into gcc, but I didn't even bother sending a patch. Copyright assign my ***, thank you very much. And that is in fact the primary reason, hacking gcc has been fun and I would like to do more, from a purely technical point of view. But having to sign a large amount of legalese is the kind of thing I may have to do for a job, and they pay me for it. It is not the kind of thing I do for fun. No fun, no money - hell, why should I do something like that?!? Thank you for not requiring copyright assignments, Linus. Jörn -- People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. -- unknown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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