From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:42:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4C5FE9A9.70101@online.de> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19549.44879.848292.639521@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19549.49818.270000.981978@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19549.61887.613440.141458@rgr.rgrjr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281354366 24724 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 11:46:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 13:46:04 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 1OiQnp-00086Y-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:46:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiQno-0003zn-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40098 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiQln-0002yn-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiQlm-0004Ts-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:58415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiQlk-0004Sw-Sj; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4db9f408.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.244.8]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MVqHM-1OSw8s05QO-00XYG8; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:43:50 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:dvhDfHGiDoO8V0Ay1E2KBUAFd7Twc3o7oQjC2c7zmjz I2/9EFPq5r8Voobl9y9A7I3SlXvXSlnwuFjFsnOcXd2h3OVOGm ebrnVPKl0k6FEo+p16Zh23/oxdEyJVGupoxzKKg5NQLDiH4v9h XqaxzzFRMTX/A+AuVaKOBxlxXkD+7QxVtTZ93oZXqfq3E2aUs/ 3EfQihzFJBQ1acJ4e+Wn/ldmucXtpJl90to7Dmzj68= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:128470 Archived-At: Am 09.08.2010 12:01, schrieb Richard Stallman: > The main reason our lawyer gave when advising us to ask for copyright > assignments is so that the copyright status of the program is simple. > He said that would help us in court if we need to sue someone for > violating the GPL. > > We can make an exception occasionally when it is very important > but we should not make many exceptions. > > > The crux is: this policy puts the risk at the weakest shoulders, at the contributors. Please consider: adversaires of free software will not ignore this, will not miss the point. BTW we have a prominent example in Germany already, how a career and social existence of an free softtware activist might be ruined. His name is Jörg Tauss. He was a member of the Parliament, the Bundestag. Inside Germany as in Europe Jörg Tauss took action against software patents. Knowing the strength of the lobby, I wondered this time, how he will survive. Meanwhile he is thrown out of the Parliament, thrown out of the party, a convicted criminal in the eyes of majority. Andreas