Georg Wrede wrote:
Knowing what (*seriously excuse* the wording here) fascists the FSF guys are, they obviously assume similar behavior of any opposition. That explains why they appear paranoid and unreasonable in their demands of the copyright statements for any code even remotely considered for inclusion.
Copyright assignment makes management a hell of a lot easier for them. They have the authority to sue anyone who uses any part of their projects, and they don't have to go through their records to determine this.
This is one reason why public domain code is not particularly interesting for them.
Of course, they can put a comment the relevant code to the effect that the original is in the public domain, which should take care of the problem.
