Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > but they used to accept patches only if authors were willing to
> > give them the copyright, so as to "fight" any legal threats.  How evil
> > is that, huh? ;)
>
> Pretty evil, if you later want to release it under a different license.

Indeed.  But then you realize your contribution is just a grain of sand among
many others and you wouldn't be able to do it even if each copyright holder
remained with their respective copyrights without their consent -- specially if
you're planning for a commercial license.  And then, you also realize it's your
choice to try to improve this free software project where everyone benefits or
apply your patch to some non-existent, non-GPL equivalent.  Or simply dig
Visual Studio.

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