From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The copyright issue
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:21:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6cgjg45.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aaow8a0p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup writes:
> The assignment makes the author responsible for the legal status of
> his contributions. Including clearing up any ownership issues.
Nope. It makes him liable to be sued by the FSF for legal expenses,
and maybe the cost of ripping out the code, if the FSF *loses* (or
maybe, if it determines in good faith that it's going to lose and
settles out of court). If the FSF *wins*, it promises to shoulder the
legal costs. If the contributor is responsible, the ownership issues
have already been cleared up: the code has to come out. This is a big
lose for the FSF, no matter how you look at it. At this point the
only thing it can do is sue the contributor. That's not a win.
> And the FSF certainly can't figure out the details of employment
> for every contributor. The assignment makes the contributor
> accountable for doing a best-faith effort.
A simple affadavit of ownership would be equally effective. FSF
*ownership* is needed for other reasons. It's not about ownership
risk management.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-05 9:12 The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Uday S Reddy
2010-08-05 12:15 ` The copyright issue Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-05 16:23 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-08-05 18:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-06 2:48 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-06 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-09 17:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-09 22:53 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-09 23:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-06 10:34 ` Adrian Robert
2010-08-05 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-06 8:12 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Richard Stallman
2010-08-06 9:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-06 15:36 ` Fren Zeee
2010-08-06 16:45 ` Bug on calendar (was: The copyright issue) Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-07 3:57 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-07 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-06 8:37 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-08-06 10:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-06 11:16 ` The copyright issue David Kastrup
2010-08-06 11:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-06 15:23 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-06 11:25 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Deniz Dogan
2010-08-06 12:01 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-13 15:52 ` The copyright issue Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-13 23:33 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-14 2:35 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-14 8:03 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-14 10:01 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-14 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-14 10:58 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-14 16:30 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-16 5:59 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-16 7:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-16 18:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-16 8:43 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-06 17:32 ` Bastien
2010-08-08 16:31 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Bernardo Barros
2010-08-09 10:00 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-09 10:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-09 13:50 ` The copyright issue David Kastrup
2010-08-09 15:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-09 16:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-09 22:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-09 23:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-10 1:06 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-10 2:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-10 7:53 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-06 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-06 16:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-07 7:33 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-07 19:09 ` rogers-emacs
2010-08-07 20:31 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-07 23:52 ` rogers-emacs
2010-08-09 6:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-09 8:28 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-09 9:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-08-10 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-11 4:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-12 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-09 10:01 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-09 11:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-09 13:06 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-09 14:28 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-09 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-09 17:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-10 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-10 8:28 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-09 20:41 ` Fren Zeee
2010-08-10 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-10 8:04 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-10 9:04 ` Andreas Röhler
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