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Re: Could someone please check if FSF received papers for Intel engineers?

On 2008/3/13, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:38 PM, J.C. Pizarro <jcpiza@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Ohh, contributions aren't accepted because they had not assigned
>  >  the copyrights to FSF.
>  >
>  >  Then, are we not doing it due to "GPL license" instead of
>  >  "GPL licence + own FSF's policy"?
>
>
> No, please go and understand why the FSF likes to have the copyright
>  of the file.  It is easier for them to defend where the sources came
>  from when it comes to patents and copyright disputes.
>
>
>  -- Pinski

Patents? => It says in the seventh term of GPL.
Copyrightes => From authors's contributions, why FSF only?
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