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I'm like a dog with a bone on this one.

We seem to have established that approaching the FSF is a bad thing. As 
it stands, they are having some sort of staff change so there is a 
queue, and unless things change, I will decline to pursue the matter 
with them when they reply.

But there remain unanswered issues. Now before you leap all over this 
screaming, just try and understand that all I am after is clarity. I'm 
not someone who has just popped up and started pointing fingers - I 
would hope my track record of helping shows I'm on the side of the good 
guys. This is not a personal agenda. I happen to think that Codex and 
it's license were not given due attention at the earliest time, and that 
we now have a potentially messy situation. That 'due attention' is 
no-one's fault necessarily but the last few threads here must surely 
show that all is not as well and clear-cut as it should be.
So, with that in mind, if I am not clear, please ask me to elaborate.

I write a page in Codex.
I retain copyright of that page, but I am allowing it's use under the 
terms of the GPL.
Bob comes along, takes my page, puts it in his book, credits me and the 
source and sells his book. That's fine. We are all happy.
John comes along, takes my page, puts it his book and sells it. No 
credit. No link to the source. Just my page. Who looks after my interest 
there ?

The way I see it, I'm currently on my own. We all are. We all have 
copyright over our own work, but I don't see that when I wrote anything 
that I gave my permission for someone else to look after my copyright 
interests. I don't have any chance of looking after my interests though 
do I ? So when I said that the FSF should be considered, I was not 
trying to do anything more than have a single enforceable point of 
ownership - something we do not currently have.

If I have got anything glaringly wrong here, please just tell me, but 
equally, if there really are things that need to get sorted out then 
shouldn't we start to discuss them ?

P.