[Macha]

That would seem a bizarre position from the FSF, since it would make the license on combined GPL works unenforceable. Do you have a source for that?

[nine_k]

GPL maternally depends on copyright enforcement. Who would sue if an infringement is detected? All the contributors collectively?

[Macha]

As with a lot of the past Linux based enforcements of the GPL, any of the contributors

[throawayonthe]

main point is expressed here i think: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html

but also seems i was mistaken about the status of linux copyright, they actually do have distributed copyright, apologies