From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Damien Zammit <damien@zamaudio.com>,
bug-hurd@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:48:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfzdoyua.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d6b417ee2133d535db6052271b9b14e7cd5ebff.camel@telenet.be>
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Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
> Upgrading the GPLv2-only code might be dificult if multiple people hold
> the copyright, so for the GPLv2-only code, it might be a good idea to still
> require copyright assignment.
When we did it for Mercurial, going from GPLv2 only to or later took
years and a *lot* of work. That’s why I consider copyright assignment to
the FSF as a good idea. They still get restricted to only use that to
further Free Software (if they violate that, the assignment loses the
reliablility that they need).
>> Even if you do keep it yourself, it makes it more difficult for anyone to enforce
>> the GPL for that project.
>
> A fair point, though I don't know how accurate that is.
From what I read, it’s the most important point, because the first
answer the other sides lawyers always give is „you’re not authorized by
*all* authors to enforce the GPL, so you lose.“
Best wishes,
Arne
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-08-10 4:55 ` Fwd: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade! jbranso
2021-08-10 15:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-08-10 15:56 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-08-11 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-12 2:18 ` Regarding copyright assignment to FSF Damien Zammit
2021-08-13 13:42 ` Maxime Devos
2021-08-13 16:23 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-08-14 21:26 ` Svante Signell
2021-08-14 21:40 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-08-13 20:48 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2021-08-14 3:42 ` Ivan Shmakov
2021-08-14 5:43 ` Michael Banck
2021-08-14 9:00 ` Sergey Bugaev
2021-08-14 12:19 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-08-14 13:12 ` Michael Banck
2021-08-14 14:16 ` Akib Azmain Turja
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