Please read my response to doughj3, who is referring to the copyright assignment to the FSF required by some GNU projects. Then, read this explanation from Ebe

Please read my response to doughj3, who is referring to the copyright assignment to the FSF required by some GNU projects. Then, read this explanation from Eben Moglen about why the FSF does copyright assignment. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html