> Yes. Specifically, they want to be able to enforce the GPL. Since only the > copyright holder can license code to anyone, whether under GPL or whatever > terms, FSF has to hold the copyright, or it can't sue anyone who breaches the > GPL, and therefore cannot enforce it.
Unless I'm missing something, that argues that the FSF must have copyright to SOME of the code. I don't see how having copyright for all of the code would be needed to do that.