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 11:26:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83wozvd9nq.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517586681 12108 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 15:51:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 15:51:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, georgedp@orbitalimpact.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 16:51:17 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 1ehdcE-00025i-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:51:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdeF-0001vy-Ra for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:53:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdBs-0001ft-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdAo-0000Ra-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:23:48 -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 1ehdAo-00082T-Hh; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3541 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehXcf-0005BN-Ug; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 04:27:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:17:15 -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:222401 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:17:15 -0500 > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > As I told Stefan in my initial message about this, I would be fine with > > releasing my contributions into the public domain. > > That would be sufficient for us to use the code. However, AFAIU and AFAIR, this is impossible to do once and for all the future contributions, as we do with copyright assignments. Which means that every single contribution will need a separate disclaimer. People who choose that way should be aware of that caveat (assuming I'm not confused about that, in which case apologies in advance).