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 10:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83607feqfn.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517588712 6483 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 16:25:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:25:12 +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 17:25:07 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 1ehe8w-0000HJ-A8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:24:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eheAx-0006pk-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:26:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdD1-0002nd-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:26:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdAr-0000UE-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdAq-00082T-P7; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:22:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3463 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehWsV-0004QB-Ti; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:39:24 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:44:04 -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:222407 Archived-At: > From: George Plymale II > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:44:04 -0500 > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > [...] 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. > > That sounds interesting, but I would like to know more of the specifics > about that. Is there a place where I can find very detailed information > about this specific "license" which is "granted back to contributors?" When you sign the copyright assignment, the text of that assignment includes the above-mentioned permissions. If you want, I can cite the text as it appears in my assignment agreements, I don't believe that text is any kind of secret.