[Freepats] Copyright transfer to the FSF

[Mark Constable]

On Saturday 07 July 2007 01:28:18 Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
> I've noticed that Marcos has used a FSF copyright for the Steinway
> piano soundfont. I remember that we were talking about this possibility,
> but it is not clear for me if the freepats project is currently aproved
> by the FSF:
> 
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/assigning.html
> 
> It looks that a process is needed before asssigning copyright to the
> Free Software Foundation. Mark, please, could you provide us more
> information? Was the process started or completed?

Neither started nor completed. It seems the procedure is rather
strict and at the mercy of other people at the FSF having to make
a decision... meaning we are still left in limbo until someone
makes that decision. A potential problem was that this project
is not strictly "software" so it may not even be appropriate to
go down this track with the FSF.

If anyone feels it's worth the effort to follow through then by
all means feel free to.

--markc