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by femto 3652 days ago
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

Because it makes it easier for them, as owner, to deal with copyright violations.

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conversely, what's the argument against assigning copyright? I'm pretty sure the EFF can be trusted to keep nano open source.
> I'm pretty sure the EFF

Do you mean FSF here?

oops. yah.