From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Review a blog post about emacs-devel
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 01:55:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77832b5d-5805-b599-1e97-71519be07894@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <055C009E-FE43-4FB5-999F-14F15A48DAD5@gmail.com>
On 14/05/2020 22.57, Yuan Fu wrote:
> I think couple days ago someone (Joao?) read the copyright assignment
> and said FSF shares the copyright with the assignee, is that right?
> If so I should change the “give” in “By signing the assignment, you
> give the copyright of your code to FSF.” to “share”.
>
> Also, does that mean the assignee can change the license to public
> domain?
See https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignment-at-the-fsf:
> Sometimes contributors are concerned about giving up rights to their
> work. As the assignment is a gift to the free software community,
> they don't want it to come at the expense of having flexibility in
> the use of their own code. Thus, we grant back to contributors a
> license to use their work as they see fit. This means they are free
> to modify, share, and sublicense their own work under terms of their
> choice. This enables contributors to redistribute their work under
> another free software license. While this technically also permits
> distributing their work under a proprietary license, we hope they
> won't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 20:58 Review a blog post about emacs-devel Yuan Fu
2020-04-27 21:31 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-27 21:37 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-29 6:33 ` Colin Baxter
2020-04-29 6:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 14:08 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-29 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 16:14 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-30 2:28 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30 15:19 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-30 16:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-30 15:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-30 16:26 ` 조성빈
2020-04-30 16:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 18:58 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-05 7:56 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-07 19:40 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 2:57 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 5:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2020-05-15 16:22 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 16:20 ` Yuan Fu
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