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Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing |
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Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:13 -0400 |
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> I mean the fact that a copyright owner can go rogue and change a license
> alone without asking if the other copyright owners would agree and at the
> same time all the copyright owners must act in cooperation in order to
> enforce a license. This is is a sad state of affairs.
That sort of thing does happen, and it has caused problems.
Fortunately the versions already released under a free license
remain available under that free license regardless of what happens.
The copyright assignment allows us to switch to a different free software
license when we want to.
But most importantly it gives us the power to go to court to enforce
the GPL _as the copyright holder_.n
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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