From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [elpa] master d08c167 48/50: on-screen: merge from remote repo
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:32:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si4fbmjs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtwovixcv.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 08 Nov 2015 23:59:19 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Are you sure? Can I do this retroactively?
>
> I don't expect you to change the old versions of the file, but the new
> version should state that the FSF copyright (now) applies to the past
> as well.
> IANAL, but that's what we've always done.
That's what copyright assignment for past and future changes means. It
does not mean that the FSF has written any of those changes, just that
you transferred your copyright interests to them. And the year numbers
are not the years of the transfer, but the year of the copyright's
origin which usually is the date of "first publication". If you have
never published the stuff previously in any manner, copyright starts
ticking in 2015. If you did in some publicly accessible manner,
copyright starts ticking at the time you did.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20151109033535.5602.4896@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <E1ZvdF6-0001UZ-U2@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-09 4:25 ` [elpa] master 1d46de7 07/50: removed lexical-binding: t (confusing because not necessary) Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 4:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <E1ZvdF4-0001To-Td@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-09 4:26 ` [elpa] master 0caf472 02/50: increased def value of on-screen-delay Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 4:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <E1ZvdFD-0001Ww-CQ@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-09 4:29 ` [elpa] master 350a979 23/50: add workaround for bug#16796 Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 4:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <E1ZvdF7-0001Uq-NT@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-09 4:33 ` [elpa] master c083518 09/50: added homepage to header Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 4:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <E1ZvdFM-0001aq-D8@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-09 4:35 ` [elpa] master d08c167 48/50: on-screen: merge from remote repo Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 4:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-09 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 5:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-09 8:32 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-11-09 21:49 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-09 21:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
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