Re: Copyright assignment wiki page

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:03 -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > This is probably true for a country like the USA, but like FX
> > the FSF didn't ask a disclaimer from my employer: in France
> > as long as you don't use your employer ressources to contribute
> > your employer has absolutely no say on what you do outside your work.
> 
> That's true in the US as well, but what happens later on if your employer
> comes by later on and claims you DID use employer resources?  Where would
> that leave the FSF?  Very few employees have deep enough pockets to
> indemnify the FSF from their employer!

FSF can't do anything about these things by writing legalese. What if I
copy some code from some other software not under GPL? Exact same
situation for the FSF. Exact same solution: trust.

Laurent