[HN Gopher] SF Conservancy now accepting copyright assignment fo...
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SF Conservancy now accepting copyright assignment for any GPL
software
Author : logic
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-05-02 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (sfconservancy.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (sfconservancy.org)
| jmole wrote:
| SF = Software Freedom != San Francisco
| schoen wrote:
| I wonder if this is a risk for Conservancy if some other party
| claims that some piece of GPLed software violates its rights
| somehow. Would other parties name Conservancy as a defendant in
| lawsuits if they learn that copyrights have been assigned to it?
| (Maybe there's some remedy that plaintiffs would sometimes like
| to try to get that only the copyright holder can provide, like
| assigning copyright _to a plaintiff_ in a settlement?)
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