if copyright assignment is so evil, why don't you oppose FSF requiring it?
if copyright assignment is so evil, why don't you oppose FSF requiring it?
Posted Feb 3, 2010 3:21 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: if copyright assignment is so evil, why don't you oppose FSF requiring it? by jmm82
Parent article: Canonical copyright assignment policy 'same as others' (ITWire)
if the kernel copyrights had been signed over to the FSF, that code would definitely be GPLv3 right now, even over the objections of the developers. Given how opposed many of those developers are, it would probably have triggered a fork in the kernel.