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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
> Yes. Specifically, they want to be able to enforce the GPL. Since only the
> copyright holder can license code to anyone, whether under GPL or whatever
> terms, FSF has to hold the copyright, or it can't sue anyone who breaches the
> GPL, and therefore cannot enforce it.
Unless I'm missing something, that argues that the FSF must have
copyright to SOME of the code. I don't see how having copyright for
all of the code would be needed to do that.