From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:50:10 +0530 Message-ID: <87fvzybu3p.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9iwcp.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9fiu0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d2v4f5bb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363227617 3398 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 02:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , subhan.tindall@rentrakmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 03:20:41 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 1UFxmW-0007HH-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:20:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFxmA-0008SR-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFxm7-0008RT-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFxm6-0003dY-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f45.google.com ([209.85.160.45]:51124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFxm5-0003dO-RP; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id ro8so1610938pbb.18 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:20:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=D6bOTVFCV85jasj5qWZmx3FI72WvZeY285pefI8NC/M=; b=Bep0//WeH+6fY8mJqiNygk8La5e+HG9HUl6Jb7JSdoRu8Ct4NrTJaqLRzbXzMT0Uc9 AEkYU6v4xb+T7AWV6+b2e1MHeA5Cx8+KV66nB1uJItZJ8g3mT3n8tyldYiZMqPAGeY7P t3Y4fWBRD9SHu+VxRHnNbKkXbyXed+CjDNIx3BjJNmKI9/qNIbf+oU7XSWs0HfH4CeNf 5tKRsyYjtENAOcE8sjDGDsNj2Z7+F3jP8Mhs22sswWhVrJ9zL/jFefiEz8UrtzpHI8IQ S6j0DI9dJXqZqbwgt35CbWH0IY0Pw0UfZN9NX5/p862z1VgM2Avb21buatPQsIjBIEDt VMSQ== X-Received: by 10.68.132.42 with SMTP id or10mr1500797pbb.127.1363227608714; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.241.107.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kl4sm863295pbc.31.2013.03.13.19.20.04 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:20:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:32:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.45 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:157828 Archived-At: Richard Richard Stallman writes: > Our normal future assignment contract covers all changes to Emacs. > Whether it is considered a "contribution" or a "fork" is not a > criterion. The above statements does not answer specific questions that I raised. At what point in time a piece of code contributed to Org etc repo is deemed part of Emacs? How does an author withhold assignments to certain files? Jambunathan K.