On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:01:30AM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
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Jani appears to have forgotten that he did even submit his lwIP changes,
several months ago, using the very same principle, i.e. declaring the code
is being put in the public domain. The maintainers know full well about
this get-around :-).
Peter is right that this is acceptable *however* we do not want to permit
this as the usual course of action.
As you may have found out by reading the rest of the thread, this was only
the case if lwIP was original code written entirely by Jani himself. If
lwIP is based on original code distributed to to Jani under the modified-BSD
license, I believe this is not longer a correct method (this is detailed in
later msg's). Pity.
The maintainers make an exception for assignment for an established
external open source project, assuming it has an appropriate licence - PD
or modified BSD is basically it. It is up to that external project to
enforce its own copyright with the licence they distribute it under.