On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:06:14 -0400
"Crane, Matthew" <mcrane03@harris.com> wrote:

quoted text
> Hi, 
> 
> I wasn't sure how to describe what the people and groups with the
> mandate to defend open source software.  There are people and groups
> with such a mandate.

The same as any other work generally: "The authors", "the rights holder",
and sometimes "the state". In the case of something like the GPL possibly
the recipient of a binary only version, although that is much less
certain.

Alan
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