From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:43:27 +0200 Message-ID: <834lmzeq8g.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517587557 9569 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 16:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: George Plymale II Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 17:05:52 2018 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 1ehdqI-00013x-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:05:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdsJ-0006Tr-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:07:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdBu-0001hv-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdAq-0000Tp-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdAq-0005tj-H7; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:22:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3511 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehWwh-0002SF-5w; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:43:43 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:02:12 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:222404 Archived-At: > From: George Plymale II > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:02:12 -0500 > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I don't know of an online resource with such details, but maybe it's > > somewhere in the FSF website. There is a statement to that effect in > > the assignment agreement itself, at least in the paper version I > > received when I made my assignment many years ago: > > > FSF agrees to grant back to Developer, and does hereby grant, > > non-exclusive, royalty-free and non-cancellable rights to use the Works > > (i.e., Developer's changes and/or enhancements, not the Program that > > they enhance), as Developer sees fit [...] > > Huh, well I wasn't aware of that and it sounds fine to me. Are you sure > that there's no strings attached? There's no other wording related to that, and the text is pretty clear. So I see no other strings that could be attached. You, as the author, retain full rights to do anything you like with the code. > Well, my understanding of the policy was that one's _contributions_ are > owned by the FSF. I.e., that you have to sign waivers which tell the > FSF, "Hey, I give up all rights to own any code that I give you guys in > these certain projects." Given the above, I believe you now realize that this was a mistaken interpretation. You retain all the rights, you just give the FSF the ability to enforce the copyright if needed.