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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@gmail.com>
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Hi,


On Feb 15 2007 21:35, Trent Waddington wrote:
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> I, personally, don't know why anyone who owned copyright on any GPL
> software and had no desire to enforce that copyright, would not offer
> to assign their copyright to the FSF so they can defend it.. but I
> imagine people have their reasons.

They would possibly change it to GPLv3.


Jan
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