RE: gEDA: gEDA as a GNU Project

["Timmerman, LJH" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

All the best wishes for 2005, that gEDA and friends may prosper.

Besides, all things that have been said and have not been said about GPL and
the FSF, __if__ there are any conflicts to be solved in a legal manner, the
most simple solution is to have __one__ representative for gEDA and not
several (dozens) of them.

If the FSF is that representative that's OK with me, the decision is not up
to me.

If being a GNU project gives more exposure and awareness in the main stream,
even better.

Anyway, I don't consider myself to be one that needs a represenative for
above things, everything posted by me to this list and/or contributed to
gEDA is freely given (as in free beer __and__ freedom of speech).


I think it boils down to:

If you think something is yours
Set it free
If it comes back to you, it's yours
If it doesn't, it never was

or

"Nothing I have is truly mine" -- Dido (Life for rent)


Just my EUR 0.01  (and no, I won't send an IMO for that   ;-)

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-geda-dev@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-geda-dev@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Karel Kulhavy
Sent: woensdag 5 januari 2005 11:19
To: geda-dev@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: gEDA: gEDA as a GNU Project


On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:14:51AM -0500, Al Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:04 am, Matt Ettus wrote:
> > Don't do it!!!!
> >
> > Whatever you do, don't do it!
> >
> > By making it a GNU project all you are doing is giving away
> > your own rights.
> 
> Not true.
> 
> > > From: Anand Babu <ab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  - Copyright need not be assigned to FSF. It is only
> > > required if you want FSF to defend in the court in case of
> > > GPL violations. - Any GPL compatible license will do.
> > >  - Project need not be hosted under Savannah.
> 
> I agree that you should not assign the copyright.  If you don't 
> assign the copyright, you don't give away your own rights.  
> Even if you do, gnu grants your rights back to you.  This isn't 
> part of GPL.  It is part of the assignment agreement.
> 
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:20 am, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> >  So here we are today: a large code base that no one person
> > owns the full copyright to.  And that's the way I like it. :)
> 
> I like it that way too.
> 
> It should also be hosted at several places, not just as mirrors.  
> You want it so that if one site, perhaps the main site, is 
> lost, the project continues.  If there are enough primary 
> sites, the project cannot be shut down.
> 

Apart from the technical and law details, GNU makes overall good impression
on me. I would personally like gEDA and PCB be pronounced GNU projects (just
for the feeling). GNU means a standard of relatively high quality in free
software for me.

Cl<