From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documenting FSF copyright assignment process Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:30:46 -0400 Message-ID: <87imvjnnax.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1554939201.27299.0@yandex.ru> <1555026549.10016.0@yandex.ru> <83d0lr4sj7.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="64953"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 19:30:56 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hF00t-000GiS-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:30:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hF00s-0005qH-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hF00m-0005n9-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hF00m-00012k-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [2607:fea8:3b80:184::2] (port=41902 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hF00l-0002nz-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:30:47 -0400 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <83d0lr4sj7.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:235358 Archived-At: Minor nit: On 2019-04-12 10:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: [...] > No, every GNU project has this requirement, not just Emacs. As far as I can tell this is false; see [1]. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html > GCC, GDB, Binutils, Coreutils, Bash, Diffutils, Grep, Texinfo, Gnulib, > Guile, Wget -- you name it. They all require an assignment. Even > submitting translations for messages of some program requires an > assignment. Indeed, these are examples of projects requiring an assignment=E2=80=94and that=E2=80=99s generally the norm=E2=80=94but not all GNU projects do, and = it=E2=80=99s ultimately up to the author(s) of the package to decide. For instance, GNU Guix doesn=E2=80=99t require contributors to assign copyright to the FS= F.