Whether or not it is acually true, this is what their lawyer has told them, and so the FSF is acting accordingly. You can’t reasonably blame them for that.

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dragonwriter 4 days ago | parent [-]

I can’t reasonably excuse the FSF for it, and if you think about what the FSF’s mission and prime means of pursuing it is, I think you’ll see why your blame-outsourcing excuse doesn't really work in this case.

	▲	teddyh 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well. What I wrote was (from what I heard) the original reason for the copyright assignment requirement. However, since a few years ago, the FSF does not require GNU projects to have copyright assignment anymore. The FSF leaves the choice up to the individual project maintainers, which would, one assumes, drop the requirement if it affected developers and contributions for their project. Some have indeed dropped it, some have not.