From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright question Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:00:53 +0200 Message-ID: <86ej71iopm.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <82BFC2C8-9E38-491F-863D-1C420AB13882@uva.nl> <200806131055.15329.andreas.roehler@online.de> <20080613094454.GA2618@muc.de> <200806131235.22170.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213354872 20614 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2008 11:01:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Carsten Dominik , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 13:01:54 2008 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 4.50) id 1K772V-0000Mh-1q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K771h-0004L1-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K771d-0004KX-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K771b-0004Jx-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60627 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K771b-0004Ju-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]:41264) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K771b-0003mu-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 17122 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2008 11:00:53 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Jun 2008 11:00:53 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CB8B48EFE7; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:00:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <200806131235.22170.andreas.roehler@online.de> ("Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler=22's?= message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:35:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.0.55; VDF: 7.0.4.190; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:99087 Archived-At: Andreas R=F6hler writes: > let aside some stipulations in the assigment itself: In > case of GPL violations FSF could pay the lawyer and > take over the legal fees (as getting > your right from courts and have it are fairly > different kind of things in this world :)). They are a tax-exempted charity. They can't just pay some lawyer and fees nilly-willy, in particularly not when the copyright holder for whom they are paying is not even in the United States. Anyway, this particular argument/sentiment is not related to Emacs at all and thus off-topic here. --=20 David Kastrup