On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:33, Richard Kenner <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: > There's nothing to have a problem WITH! No assignment has taken place. > The statement on the web has no legal significance whatsoever. Unless > the company SIGNS something, they still own the copyright on the code > and can, at any time, decide they don't want it distributed.
If I submit a patch to the GCC project---necessitating an assignment of the copyright to the FSF---then can the people of the FSF decide that they don't want me to distribute my own work in another project (proprietary or otherwise)? That is, could I actually become liable for infringing on the copyright of my own original work? Are we just trusting RMS not to be a troll (tongue-in-cheek)?
