Re: Another job for the Gnome Foundation ?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

kelly@poverty.bloomington.in.us writes: 
> In effect, the mass common ownership of the intellectual property
> rights in any serious GPL'd project may very well make the copyright
> effectively unenforceable and reduces the status of GPL licensure to
> being little different than "released to the public domain".
> 

Interesting mail, this is the first very good explanation of why
copyright assignment is needed I've ever read. RMS's communication
skills do not encourage people to do the FSF assignment.

If you can separate a part of the code clearly copyrighted by only one
party, could you sue for violations of the copyright on that portion?
This would apply to many projects or at least chunks of them.

But overall your point is a strong one in favor of assignment.

Havoc