FW: FW: strcasestr() patch proposal

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:37:26PM -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote:
>I am no legal expert but I think that the original author keep all the
>rights on its creation.
>
>When contributing to an Open Source Project, the contribution becomes the
>project property so that the author cannot come back later and say, "I
>changed my mind, please remove my contribution from the project". Except for
>that, the author should be able to grant the right to use his creation under
>other licenses if he wishes so.

It entirely depends on the wording of the assignment.

I do know that, at the very least, having someone who is not the author
tell eveyone that the author said it was ok is not legally
binding.  Sorry.

cgf