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To: ShadowAce

It's all one big leftist cabal, the copyrights for most GPL software are signed over to Stallman so they can become "copyleft" instead. You mean you never knew, yet you've been so committed to supporting them all this time.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sign+over+copyrights+to+fsf&fr=FP-tab-web-t364&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8


44 posted on 04/11/2006 8:26:18 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
You've been told that doing a yahoo search and posting the search is generally a bad way make a point... this is especially true if you doent even take the time to read the first hit..

FSF has the resources and the will to enforce the GPL and other GNU licenses, but only for software for which it owns the copyrights; GPL'd software owned by others must be defended by its owners, since the FSF has no legal standing to enforce the GPL for them.

I would have never found this w/out your help so thank you, you have provided evidence that the GPL is just a distribution license and does not grant stallman ownership of my copyright should I put it under that license

47 posted on 04/11/2006 8:34:54 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Golden Eagle; N3WBI3
It's all one big leftist cabal, the copyrights for most GPL software are signed over to Stallman so they can become "copyleft" instead.

You really screwed the pooch on that one. The FSF likes you to sign over copyright when you contribute to their GNU software collection (not the tens of thousands of GPL programs, just their GNU collection of about 300 programs), but it is not necessary. So much for "most GPL software."

Withdraw, or do we mark this one down as a lie?

59 posted on 04/11/2006 9:07:45 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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