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Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:14 -0400 |
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> What a sad state of affairs we are in regarding these legal aspects.
The laws were set up to help nonfree software. We have to back-drive
them to get a result that wasn't envisioned. This is why copyleft is
sometimes called a legal hack.
I agree it is a sad state of affairs. But that is what we find
ourselves in. It is up to us to try to win freedom out of this.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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