Some ructions over GNU Nano have led to the creation of yet another tiny text editor http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/in_mourning_for_nano_chap_crafts_1kloc_text_editor/.

With regard to this:

“Benno also did not want to assign copyright to the FSF for his contributions.”

it’s not clear why outfits like the FSF and Ubuntu want you to assign your copyrights to them. The Linux kernel project, for example, doesn’t require it https://lwn.net/Articles/592503/.