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Red Hat will give eCos Copyrights to the FSF!

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @05:59AM from the very-cool-gesture dept.

An anonymous reader notes "Businesswire reports in this article that RedHat will assign its copyrights for the eCos embedded OS to the FSF. This is great news, considering that they have stopped developing it in 2002. Hopefully this will mean new life for the project."

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Abandonware by Rhubarb+Crumble · 2004-01-13 06:05 · Score: 5, Interesting

Is this the first time a software developer has expressly relinquished copyright for abandonware? Of course, eCos was never proprietary, so it's not quite the same...