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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:08 -0700 |
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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
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