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Re: OFF_TOPIC: Copyrights (was Re: Serialization)
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- Subject: Re: OFF_TOPIC: Copyrights (was Re: Serialization)
- From: Andrew Haley <aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk>
- Date: 3 Jul 1999 17:37:56 -0000
> From: Alexandre Petit-Bianco <apbianco@cygnus.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:39:38 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Owning the copyright allows you to decide which license the software
> will be put under.
Also, it means that the copyright owner is in a position to take legal
action if someone tries to make an unfree version of the software: if
no-one in particular owned the copyright that wouldn't be possible.
This is very important for crucial products like gcc.
Andrew.