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Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> I'd be willing to bet they have a large number of illegally assigned
> copyrights

All the assignments the have received from me are illegal in the
strict sense of the word: as a German, I cannot assign copyright, only
ea usufruct of a copyright (commonly called exploitation rights).  (Of
course, I have informed the FSF about this problem, and the contract
is probably valid before a US court, which is the most important thing
for them.)

But if someone illegally assigns copyright in the majority of the
cases (e.g. if there is a third party having rights to the code),
that's not the problem of the FSF, but of the poor developer.