Re: Copyright assignment

[Christoph Hellwig <hch lst de>]

> Lets take an example: reusing chunks of the Linux kernel into the GNU
> Hurd.  It is going to be almost impossible to have all the authors of a
> piece of Linux kernel assign the copyright to the FSF for inclusion in
> the Hurd, unless the copyright assignment requirement is dropped.

The Hurd reuses enormous amounts of Linux code (all device drivers and
networking code, from and old and buggy Linux release with gazillions
of security issues), aswell as from BSD and Mach.

The FSF only cares for Copyright Assignments if it helps their cause.