Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linus' gang: "abandon the currentGPLv3 process before it becomes too late"

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    Of course, contrary to ams' contention, the FSF can't just
   >    choose to do whatever they want to with IBM's code:
   > 
   > I never said that.  IBM is the copyright holder of IBM's code, in
   > the case of GCC, it is not longer IBM's code, but the FSF's,
   > since IBM has transfered copyright to the FSF.  So indeed, the
   > FSF can do whatever they would like with their code.

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Nothing about copyright holder status so it doesn't change anything,
the FSF is the copyright holder of all the code that goes into GCC
(including several other projects).  Feel free to grep through the GCC
source code.