From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tests and copyright Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:16:37 +0900 Message-ID: <871u5vk2qi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87fvudqsld.fsf@engster.org> <877gfoq7ou.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376540217 5573 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2013 04:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel , PJ Weisberg To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 15 06:16:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9oza-0001f9-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:16:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9ozZ-0001Q7-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49650) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9ozQ-0001Q1-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9ozH-0004w9-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:33954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9ozH-0004vu-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:16:39 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF7E9700A7; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:16:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CE611A3D92; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:16:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <877gfoq7ou.fsf@engster.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162750 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > > I don't see why they wouldn't [require assignment],=C2=A0if they're > > distributed.=C2=A0 They're just as much the original work of an author. >=20 > AFAIK, they are not distributed with the tarballs. Any "conveying" to a third party is distribution for legal purposes. That's defined in the GPL, and includes publicly accessible VCS repos. However, there's no law that requires assignment; it's purely a policy of the GNU Project (at least, I don't think Stefan would be allowed to unilaterally end it, even if he wanted to) with respect to "GNU Emacs". I'm pretty sure that the Emacs maintainers would want to consider the test suite "part of Emacs", so the same rules would likely apply. But you'd have to ask whoever sets such policies (I would guess RMS, but maybe the FSF Board or Stefan).