[stefan_]

It appears to me that this post of yours involves lots of handwaving and appeals to history while the GPL continues to be ignored (look no further than e.g. Tesla).

Where is the hyperbolic let them leverage a very extreme position when some open source project asks for copyright assignment?

[onphonenow]

The issue the SFC has had is that folks like Linus and other developers are not interested AT ALL in their approach to enforcement or their interpretation of the GPL.

Since code talks and talk walks, they are not left with a ton. The Affero GPLv3 fell totally flat. GPLv3 pretty flat (Samba was a big adopter maybe? Not sure what growth they saw after that). Some of the SFC enforcement saw a big move / growth in MIT style licenses (no copyleft elements really) which is a big tragedy as well as a fracturing of licensing (another miss in my book).

So if they can get folks to assign them the copyright, that will let them start chasing again.

I'm not handwaving, I cited the article, the youtube video. This is pretty well known as a debate.

[athrun]

> Some of the SFC enforcement saw a big move / growth in MIT style licenses (no copyleft elements really) which is a big tragedy as well as a fracturing of licensing (another miss in my book).

indeed. Tragedy is the right word!