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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Jun 14, 2007, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

    > The FSF required copyright assignment to themselves in order to accept
    > the changes from the developers.

    For many strategic projects, but not all of them.

    > So the FSF owns the whole copyright and can change things whenever
    > they want, to whatever license they want.

    This is not true. Have you ever read the copyright assignment
    contract? It very clearly constrains the ways the FSF can release the
    code.

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    Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
    FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
    Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
    Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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