FSF assignment policy

Hi (X)Emacs folks, as FSF assignment policy was raised again at python-mode(a)python.org, please permit to ask you a thing I never understood: AFAIS every Emacs-file is inspired by many, many others from the very beginning. We see almost always a plenty of revisions with a lot of people involved. So how a single developer could ever declare what the assignment formula demands? How could any person declare, he _owns_ the rights at the code, thus assigning it. Isn't that assignment policy driving developers in a kind of forgery? Making them false declarations, thus having rights about them, being everyday able to sue them for these false declarations? Or am I simply dreaming a bad dream? Sincerely Andreas Röhler _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta