Re: lynx-dev Re: Licensing Lynx (fwd)

[David Woolley]

> The fact that there is no single legal person that owns the copyright
> doesn't make the copyright status unclean (and neither unclear, in
> case that is what you meant to write).  All it does is make the identity
> of the owners difficult to determine.

It also makes it difficult to enforce the copyright as legal action can
only be taken by the individuals and they'd have to demonstrate that
it was their part of the code that was violated.  This was one of the
reasons the FSF were giving for not taking on Lynx as a fully approved
application.