On 8 Mar 2004, at 23:09, Kelly Martin wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > > If sueing copyright violators is the main goal, I'd rather let the > > Free Software Foundation do this job. It is probably in a lot better > > position when it should ever come to a law-suit. > > The FSF can't sue someone unless it owns at least some part of the > code in question. The FSF's solution to this has been to seek > assignment of copyright. > Do you want to assign the GIMP copyrights to the FSF? Sven cannot assign _all_ GIMP copyrights to the FSF, since he does not own them. He can, however, assign _his_ copyrights to the FSF (as can anybody else, for that matter). (This is undoubtedly what you meant, I am just stressing it to clarify.) -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
