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Dear Free Software Supporter,

Today, we're happy to announce the publication of our [Contributor's
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guide][1]. The guide is meant to help
contributors to Free Software Foundation (FSF) copyrighted packages
better understand our copyright assignment program.

[1]: [link removed]

Copyleft licenses like the GNU General Public License rely on
copyright law in order to ensure that free software remains free. The
tools that copyright law provides enable the copyright holder on a
work to make sure that the work is always distributed in a way that
enables users to run, edit, share, and contribute to their
modifications of the work. When a license violator fails to live up to
these standards, only the copyright holder is able to use the powers
granted by copyright law in order to enforce the terms of the license
on the code. For over thirty-five years, the FSF has handled license
enforcement for many important GNU Project packages. In order to put
us in the best position to do that enforcement work, we require
contributors on FSF-copyrighted packages to assign their copyright to
the FSF.

Thousands of contributors have happily made such assignments over the
years, but often have questions about the process or what assignment
means. The FSF's Licensing & Compliance Lab created this FAQ so we
could collect the answers to the most common questions in order to
help contributors better understand the system and keep the program
running smoothly.

This is just the start of the next steps in improving our assignment
program. We will continue to build this FAQ over time, so if you have
a question not covered here, please let us know at <[email protected]>.

Sincerely,

Craig Topham
Copyright & Licensing Associate



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