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That would seem a bizarre position from the FSF, since it would make the license on combined GPL works unenforceable. Do you have a source for that?


GPL maternally depends on copyright enforcement. Who would sue if an infringement is detected? All the contributors collectively?


As with a lot of the past Linux based enforcements of the GPL, any of the contributors


main point is expressed here i think: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html

but also seems i was mistaken about the status of linux copyright, they actually do have distributed copyright, apologies




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