[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Joe Greco]

> Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> > I'm struggling to think of another free software project where contributed
> > code bearing an identical GPL or BSD license would require any such
> > additional disclaimer.
> 
> How about any softwaer owned by the FSF, MySQL, SleepCat DB, QT. I can 
> continue if you want... :-)

Really?  Has the FSF really lowered itself to forcing people to sign away
future acquired patent/IP rights?

I wonder if IBM has signed such an agreement, because that'd have an
interesting effect on some of their technology patents.

I'm going to have to start echoing someone else's comments here who called
it software communism.  I probably wouldn't have been quite that extreme,
but hey, you learn something new and interesting every day.

... JG
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