5 Mar
2007
5 Mar
'07
11:47 p.m.
brad clawsie on 2007-03-05 20:30:24 -0800:
(3) The GPL has never been tested in court
http://www.fsf.org/news/wallace-vs-fsf
note that during this thread there was a note from a contributor to promise to not sue a potentially infriging use. you should be careful of such promises, particularly considering that some fsf licenses include copyright assignment...
No FSF licenses include, demand, or require copyright assignment. The FSF encourages developers assign them the copyright to pieces of free software for the reasons enumerated in the link you mentioned, but this assignment is not a requirement for using the GPL or LGPL. Case in point: the Linux kernel.