From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:08 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <25b4532b-b2db-e813-7c4c-ee75770e98d6@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87b29866-51a6-05b5-c08f-94201bce3d89@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500364406 5127 195.159.176.226 (18 Jul 2017 07:53:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:53:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: Yuri Khan To: =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_R=c3=b6hler?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 09:53:22 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 1dXNJj-0000h2-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:53:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXNJo-0001QW-QY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXNJi-0001QQ-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXNJf-0007QT-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:51852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXNJf-0007QC-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2A016023B; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id mbBQv1GJSef0; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BA016023F; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id BRRx4jLF_P6w; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.184.153]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D65D016023D; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87b29866-51a6-05b5-c08f-94201bce3d89@online.de> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:216817 Archived-At: Andreas R=C3=B6hler wrote: > What would stop FSF to assist defending the authors rights? The FSF would not have standing. The authors would, but might not be avai= lable. >> If you have assigned copyright to FSF, then FSF can sue that violator >> and have a probability of winning and forcing them to either publish >> their improvements under GPL, or stop distributing their derived work. >=20 >=20 > Could you point me at some example?=20 http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-05-cisco-settlement.html