Comment Someone mod parent down (Score 1) 258
FSF doesn't require copyright be handed over. Claiming that they do doesn't quite meet my definition of `insightful'.
FSF merely suggests that people who don't want to be bothered defending the GPL on their own code consider assigning copyright to them so that they can do it. There is absolutely no obligation to do this. If you don't want to hand over copyright to them, that is fine, but then of course defending the terms of the GPL on that code is your responsibility as copyright owner.
What Sun is doing is different.
FSF merely suggests that people who don't want to be bothered defending the GPL on their own code consider assigning copyright to them so that they can do it. There is absolutely no obligation to do this. If you don't want to hand over copyright to them, that is fine, but then of course defending the terms of the GPL on that code is your responsibility as copyright owner.
What Sun is doing is different.
