"Garrett D'Amore" <garr...@damore.org> wrote:
> > Even FSF projects require some sort of contributor agreement for
> > contributions of a certain scope to gcc, etc.
>
> FSF does the same thing for the same reasons that SCA does. It has
> nothing to do with assurances of original authorship, and *everything*
> to do with making sure that there is a single copyright owner who can
> change the license at any time. (This allows FSF to globally change the
> GPLv2 to v3 on its projects, for example, without requiring individual
> authors to sign another agreement.)
The FSF requires much more than needed.
The FSF likes to get something that is even forbidden in Germany (transferring
the complete Copyrights to the FSF).
While there is a true background for the requiring assignements for
contributions
to an already existing "work", there is no need if a complete work is
contributed. The FSF likes to get an assignement even for contributing a
complete work and this is not needed nor desired by the typical author of a
complete work.
Jörg
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