From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:09:03 -0400 Message-ID: <19549.44879.848292.639521@rgr.rgrjr.com> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281292854 8635 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 18:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 08 20:40:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiAnf-0001fU-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiAnC-0002Ws-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50929 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oi9Ry-0001oB-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OholY-00029n-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rgrjr.com ([216.146.47.5]:36271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OholY-00029e-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rgrjr.dyndns.org (c-66-30-196-77.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.30.196.77]) by rgrjr.com (Postfix on CentOS) with ESMTP id BE2CB1601EE for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 11426 invoked by uid 89); 7 Aug 2010 19:09:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO rgr.rgrjr.com) (192.168.57.1) by home with SMTP; 7 Aug 2010 19:09:05 -0000 Original-Received: by rgr.rgrjr.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 553D7484F0; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:09:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM viewmail-600 under 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128422 Archived-At: From: Uday S Reddy Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:39:29 +0100 . . . The intent of my statement was: Anybody can use the FSF codebase to develop their variants, but Gnu Emacs can't use their enhancements to enrich itself unless they assign the copyright to FSF. Having titled my post "the copyright issue" I forgot to mention copyright again. . . . In all cases, it is the free software that I am talking about. It seems odd to me that Gnu and FSF do not simply embrace all forms of free software. The copyright issue is not about freedom, but about control. The FSF has sensibly decided not to accept contributions it does not own, lest the owner attempt to revoke permission to use them at a later date. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/