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In article <1992Mar13.141744.15705@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> dhoyman@sparky.fammed.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes:
>I am part of a group which is working on an GNU-like application on the 
>Macintosh (please don't tell me this is an oxymoron :-)).  I was wondering 
>who really "owns" gnu source code.  Is that some legal entity?  Do authors
>that work "for" gnu necessarily need to "give" there code away?  We are 
>just starting to create code and would like to know how someone else is
>doing this.

The Free Software Foundation is the copyright holder on most GNU project
source code.

Volunteers who write programs for the GNU project are encouraged to assign
copyright to the FSF, but there is no rule that says they must.
For example, Ghostscript is distributed by the FSF under the terms of
the GNU license, but the copyright holder is (I think) Peter Deutsch.

Many other people (for example, Larry Wall) distribute their programs under
the terms of the GNU license.  Use of the GNU license is independent of who
the copyright holder is.

So, you do not need to "give" your code away to distribute it under the
GNU license.  Using the GNU license does not in any way assign your rights
to someone else.  It merely allows other people to redistribute your code
under similar terms.