Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing

[Richard Stallman]

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The purpose of collecting copyright assignments for GNU Emacs (and
some other GNU packages) is so that the FSF can enforce the GPL in
court if someone distributes nonfree copies.

Such distribution violates the GPL, but if nobody enforces the license
in court, the violater can get away with continuing it.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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