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For a copyleft license to do its job you have to enforce it, otherwise it would be the same as a permissive license.

The FSF is not requiring copyright assignment. It is the choice of the GNU Emacs project that the GNU Emacs project requires them. The Emacs maintainers could change their minds about that, and FSF would be OK with that.

friendly reminder: the built-in vc-mode can interface with most version control systems, including git.

It's not as great as magit, but it works (and it has you to learn very little).

If the FSF wants Magit but can't bundle it because of their own policies (as Stefan Monnier so eloquently points out), that's a problem for the FSF to solve, not Magit.

I think this comment on the Lwn-article really highlights how bizarre this has all turned out:

> GNU began as a project to replace proprietary software with free one, and now lives on as a project to replace free software with free software.

I think that about sums it up. (And I say that as a passionate Emacs-user)

Apropos vc-mode comes with vc-annotate-mode (C-x C-v g) which is the best way to go through the history of the file