From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Subhan Tindall <subhan.tindall@rentrakmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:37:28 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2v4f5bb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKKEbDv4UQDcMtx+ki-WuJGSAQCYng4qFrJo3Uxt9e-Q503_9g@mail.gmail.com>
Subhan Tindall writes:
> Example.
> I sign a copyright assignment form in order to work on project X. I
> then write code to enhance or fix errors in X.
> A reasonable person would most likely determine that my intent was add
> this code to project X, therefore
> my copyright was transferred upon it's creation as part of the
> contract I signed.
Not at all. Your intent (for values of "you" != you, I expect) might
very well be a fork, not a contribution. I do that all the time,
creating works intended only for my private use, or that I want to
maintain control of until I'm satisfied with them. "Upon creation" is
not tenable.
OTOH, there's a serious practical problem with your claim that code
that can be used with Emacs is automatically subject to an existing
"current and future code" assignment. Namely, that would be grounds
for the FSF to subpoena my ~/.xemacs/init.el to search for their
"property". A dollar I never received is surely insufficient
compensation for that!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-13 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-10 14:56 Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Jambunathan K
2013-03-10 15:04 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-10 22:18 ` Karl Fogel
2013-03-11 1:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-11 4:23 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-11 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-11 3:14 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-11 5:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-11 6:00 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-11 6:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-11 6:10 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-11 6:41 ` Germán A. Arias
2013-03-11 7:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-11 12:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-11 14:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-11 15:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-11 17:58 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-11 19:12 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-11 19:52 ` Subhan Tindall
2013-03-12 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-12 5:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-12 6:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-12 6:23 ` A proposal (ox-html.el/ox-odt.el) Jambunathan K
2013-03-12 17:02 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-12 18:38 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-03-13 8:08 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-13 8:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-12 6:57 ` Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Jambunathan K
2013-03-12 16:40 ` Subhan Tindall
2013-03-12 16:59 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-13 1:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2013-03-13 2:04 ` William Gardella
2013-03-13 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-13 18:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-03-14 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2013-04-01 8:32 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-01 21:06 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-04-01 21:35 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-02 13:22 ` Allen S. Rout
2013-04-03 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2013-04-03 6:50 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 8:05 ` Bastien
2013-04-03 8:16 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 8:32 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-03 8:46 ` Bastien
2013-04-03 9:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-03 9:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-03 10:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-03 14:39 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 16:09 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 16:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 16:40 ` Timur Aydin
2013-04-03 16:43 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 17:04 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 17:20 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 17:44 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 18:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-03 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 1:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-04 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 12:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-03 23:10 ` Germán A. Arias
2013-04-04 2:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-04 2:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 6:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-03 20:57 ` Emacs community crashes when I try to quit (was: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode)) Allen S. Rout
2013-04-03 21:39 ` Emacs community crashes when I try to quit Karl Fogel
2013-04-03 18:09 ` Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) W. Greenhouse
2013-04-03 8:36 ` Bastien
2013-04-03 8:42 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-03 15:15 ` J. David Boyd
2013-04-03 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-13 19:21 ` Allen S. Rout
2013-03-14 3:08 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 11:20 ` Bastien
2013-03-13 22:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-14 0:57 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-14 10:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-14 16:00 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-14 17:01 ` Bastien
2013-03-14 17:09 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-14 17:56 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 18:53 ` Bastien
2013-03-14 19:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-14 15:21 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-14 19:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-14 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-15 0:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-15 6:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-15 12:49 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-15 15:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-14 2:20 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 15:22 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-14 16:05 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-14 16:11 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-14 16:13 ` Ivan Andrus
2013-03-12 0:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-12 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-12 17:48 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-13 1:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-11 10:09 ` Christian Egli
2013-03-11 14:13 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-12 20:11 ` Glenn Morris
2013-03-12 20:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-12 21:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-13 2:36 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-13 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-13 19:35 ` Karl Fogel
2013-03-14 2:44 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 2:56 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-14 18:03 ` Karl Fogel
2013-04-01 8:03 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-01 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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