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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:01:01 -0400
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The main reason our lawyer gave when advising us to ask for copyright
assignments is so that the copyright status of the program is simple.
He said that would help us in court if we need to sue someone for
violating the GPL.

We can make an exception occasionally when it is very important
but we should not make many exceptions.