No. The rift is not over the license itself. From the mail archive Benno states... > > As you know, I will not assign my copyright to the FSF, nor to > > a

No. The rift is not over the license itself. From the mail archive Benno states... > > As you know, I will not assign my copyright to the FSF, nor to > > anyone else. All the code I write is GPL'ed. You don't need to > > own the copyright on any code in order to be able to enforce the > > GPL. [...] > > Indeed, and in fact for a long time the copyright was owned by me > before it was assigned to the FSF. It's not required per se, but > generally speaking, there must be a Maintainer of the Software who > believes in the ideals of the GNU system I do believe in the ideal of the GNU system: to have computer systems that consist entirely of libre software. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg00021.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg000...