OFF_TOPIC: Copyrights (was Re: Serialization)

[Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> Geoff> I have almost finished porting my serialization classes from
> Geoff> the Classpath project but cannot proceed without more
> Geoff> native/reflection support.
> 
> That's cool.  Did you write these classes?  Do you hold the copyright?
> I'm asking because if you don't, or if you aren't willing to sign
> papers for us, then we'll have to rewrite the classes anyway.  Bummer.

I apologise for shifting off-topic, but do you have a FAQ item prepared
somewhere for this:

What is the point of free software, with all its promises of
code-sharing and code-reuse, if the stance of (Cygnus? The FSF?) is that
they need to own the copyright on all the code?

Jules