13 Dec
2006
13 Dec
'06
11:29 p.m.
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 17:23, Dale Beams wrote:
It's not the GPL that is muddy. It is statements such as (c) and the following;
Quote "All contributions from other authors are vetted and incorporated by me (Daniel Barron). All contributors automatically hand over all copyright to me. What contributors get in return is fame, the feature they want, the bug they fixed incorporated, and a warm fuzzy feeling that they are also helping others who get the software for free."
There are a number of proprietary company websites which claim at least an unrestricted license on idea submissions. Not to say that makes it right or legal, but it's at least common-place.