Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, April 08, 2014 5:01 AM >On Apr 8 03:30, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >>> I cannot supply patches for you guys because of the GPL. > >What on earth keeps you from sending patches to a GPLed project while at >the same time using it is no problem at all? That doesn't make sense to >me. Also, see http://cygwin.com/contrib.html. You don't have to sign a >copyright assignment for trivial patches.
He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated and sometimes seemingly nonsensical. That's not sarcasm. I work in an intellectual property office at NIH. I spend a significant part of my working day trying to explain why the US government cannot do things that is just normal business for everyone else. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
