Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU copyright assignment

[Matthew Dempsky]

address@hidden (James Blackwell) writes:

>> I don't understand why you're worrying about this issue.  (Well, I
>
> Mostly because I haven't heard him actually say that this is what he's
> going to do. For all he's said, he could be planning to violate
> copyright by changing various headers and dumping the license into the
> FSF's lap.
>
> When licensing is involved, there are legal ramifications. It doesn't
> hurt to have the obvious stated.

Right, and Tom has been one of the most stringent adherents to that
fact.  I recall from the ArX debacle Tom reprimanding Walter for
attributing copyrights frivolously to other developers for code they'd
never contributed to.