GPL and FSF (was Re: JFS)

[mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)]

>>>>> "BG" == Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes:

    BG> [The GPL] is also designed to give Stallman's organization,
    BG> the "Free Software Foundation," control of the fates of as
    BG> many open source computer programs and libraries as possible.

Software put under the GPL is not necessarily owned or controled by
the FSF.  Unless the author grants the Copyright to the FSF, the
author still retains control of his software and, as the copyright
holder, is still allowed to make proprietary derivitives.

I realize that you may not have been saying that the GPL grants
ownership to the FSF, but it could have been interpreted that way.

Mark.