On 17 Oct 2001 10:05:47 +0200, Florian Weimer said:
(That's not Werner's fault, the FSF is not interested in contributions
from the University of Stuttgart in general.)
That is a bit too simplistic view. The fact is that the FSF requires
copyright assignment for all core GNU software (see
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/why-assign.html). For reasons German
lawyers - specialized on Free Software issues - can't agree with, that
university does not want to sign such papers.
One of the reasons to found the FSF-Europe ist to tackle such legal
problems. Eben Moglen is now working with European lawyers to get these
things solved.
Ciao,
Werner
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