On Jun 14, 2007, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> The FSF required copyright assignment to themselves in order to accept
> the changes from the developers.
For many strategic projects, but not all of them.
> So the FSF owns the whole copyright and can change things whenever
> they want, to whatever license they want.
This is not true. Have you ever read the copyright assignment
contract? It very clearly constrains the ways the FSF can release the
code.
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FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
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Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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