Re: Licensing and copyright

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Shaun McCance">

> I'm not sure I really see the utility in assigning copyright to the GNOME
> Foundation.  That is, I don't really understand why anybody would be
> willing to assign copyright to the GF and not to the FSF.  The FSF already
> holds the copyright on many free software packages, and is likely more
> knowledgeable about how to defend those copyrights.

(Same story from the board, really - the last few times this has come up, it
was largely agreed upon that the FSF would be a better entity to assign
copyright to.)

- Jeff

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