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Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
"relatively"? It's the "relatively" that's the problem. I agree that 99% of the time there's no problem. It's the magnitude of the problems that the 1% cause that give us reason to hesitate.bartv wrote:[...] if we are going to bother with copyright
assignments at all then we might as well do it properly.I'm still being misunderstood. My point is that you might find a way to go *without* formal copyright assignments to a central organization, and still be relatively safe from corporate copyrights.
But it's their legal advisors that say it's not excessive to use an assignment-based scheme! It's the only way to be legally sure about ownership.The FSF has
defined certain procedures which it considers necessary, and it has
some very good legal advisors.Yes, whatever they have makes sense to them for their assignment-based scheme, and there has been little "competition" to discourage excessive barriers to contribution.
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