On 18.07.2017 09:53, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Andreas Röhler wrote:
>> What would stop FSF to assist defending the authors rights?
>
> The FSF would not have standing. The authors would, but might not be 
> available.
>
>>> If you have assigned copyright to FSF, then FSF can sue that violator
>>> and have a probability of winning and forcing them to either publish
>>> their improvements under GPL, or stop distributing their derived work.
>>
>>
>> Could you point me at some example? 
>
> http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-05-cisco-settlement.html

Thanks for the info.

Seems I just dislike the idea of enforced freedom  - it should expand by 
the example and beneficial results it provides. That way prefer 
licenses, which allow users to do the wrong thing.