> In this case, the FSF is the legally-recognised author and the > exclusive licensor. They hold the copyright.
AFAIK, the FSF isn't exclusive licensor of assigned stuff. Assignors reserve and retain right to license assigned stuff under any terms they like. At least that's how IBM assigned the stuff to the FSF. FSF grants back the right to let IBM (and voluenteers) to use the code as they see fit, but they are still the sole licensors of the code and could choose not to do this. IBM is for example not the copyright holder of GCC, or any parts of code which it has contributed, it is the FSF, if you have trouble beliveing that, check the copyright notices. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
