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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249450 Archived-At: > 2020. 5. 9. =EC=98=A4=ED=9B=84 10:52, Jo=C3=A3o T=C3=A1vora =EC=9E=91=EC=84=B1: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:35 PM Alfred M. Szmidt wro= te: >>> Finally, above practical aspects, assigning copyright is declaring >>> support for an idea larger than the FSF itself. It's a political >>> declaration. >> Could someone officially confirm or deny the above paragraph? >> It is very much false. By assigning your copyright to the FSF you do >> just that and nothing else, it says nothing about what values you hold >> or wish to endorse. >=20 > I don't resist asking: does relinquishing copyright of a work to > the "Free Software Foundation" a "nonprofit with a worldwide > mission to promote computer user freedom" really say nothing > about what values one wishes to endorse? Well, to improve Emacs maybe? I have pretty strong (negative) arguments abou= t the FSF, but I found out I had to sign the papers so I signed it. I hope i= t doesn=E2=80=99t get interpreted this way... > Maybe. =C2=AF\_(=E3=83=84)_/=C2=AF I'm happy to clarify that it did, _for m= e_, and > that's how I meant it. No idea why others did or didn't do that. >=20 > Jo=C3=A3o T=C3=A1vora >=20