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Posted by: bobby (Wednesday 1 June 2005, 10:40 PM)

This is obvious bunk.. dreamt up by those who wish to 'legally' violate the license. There is no need for a person (or corporation) to know who owns a peice of code when the license (attached to the code) shows the requirements on how that code may be used. The only reason to 'need' to know the owner is to enable the 'knower' to decide whether or not they may 'safely' violate the copyright. Ie, is the codes owner too large/wealthy to trample all over.

In addition, it is obvious from a reading of the GPL that the FSF does NOT own the copyright on all software the GPL is applied to. Only those who value trickery more than truth would even think of this line of thinking.

When will people realize that the GPL was designed to prevent the tricksters/theives from usurping code that is not theirs while allowing those who play fair to benefit from playing fair. You can share.. but you can't take for yourself..