From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:56:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20170719115605.GA4353@tuxteam.de> References: <87b29866-51a6-05b5-c08f-94201bce3d89@online.de> <25b4532b-b2db-e813-7c4c-ee75770e98d6@cs.ucla.edu> <76369283-85b0-779d-0418-457abfd01db3@online.de> <7121c12e-29df-8710-9357-bc9be078804a@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500465441 21062 195.159.176.226 (19 Jul 2017 11:57:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:57:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 13:57:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dXnbI-0004m3-P1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:57:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXnbO-0002bK-3W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXnaW-0002Zf-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:56:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXnaR-0005EJ-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:58226 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXnaR-0005At-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dXnaH-0001MA-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:56:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7121c12e-29df-8710-9357-bc9be078804a@online.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216877 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:20:31AM +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote: [...] > 2) the probability of involuntary license violations To mitigate that, the FSF (and not only them) have a policy of "patience": there are long, friendly negociations with violators (often years!) before actually going to court. The aim is to bring the violator into compliance, not to extort money from them. There are folks out there misusing the GPL (Patrick McHardy comes to mind). As any sharp tool, the GPL (in conjunction with courts, which are much biased towards "war") can be misused. The solution to that is community action. See https://lwn.net/Articles/694890/ Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllvSNUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbH9ACbB8pdQwc3Or3/ZoLkvJdJMyBq tEIAnAnpLeAb30MmwZ3khSaAWsRBpdbb =DOk4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----