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Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?



pausmith@nortelnetworks.com (Paul D. Smith) writes:

> to take someone to court for violating the copyright.  The FSF's
> position in a court case (if it were to ever come to that) is immensely
> strengthened and simplified by virtue of being the sole copyright
> owner.  As such, they have much more legal clout they can use to _avoid_
> court.

Contrary to popular opinion the FSF is _not_ the sole copyright holder
of GNU Emacs. The copyright to FSF Emacs is jointly held by the FSF
and the Electrotechnical Laboratory (which is the Japanese government
research institute that is responsible for Mule).

Jan


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