From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:25:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87shi08bx5.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="f403045ef4dede1f730554370f5e" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499970417 3425 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2017 18:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 13 20:26:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dVip6-0000RG-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:26:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVipC-0004fC-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVioC-0004YY-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVioC-00066i-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yb0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c09::233]:33438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVioC-00064m-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-yb0-x233.google.com with SMTP id 84so22880866ybe.0 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:25:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=SV/pHmcKLjGKQj9pCB7HxcOR0oiX2OU+rfDWdzRjVcc=; b=awjmYGWS+F1jEcEFA8A/kT+mzp6pBz2RSMGpz1hDtydzO3unI0nFiUqxRJkFHvWYUH TNVYYMuaD7LgM/boXRLhH+4psDw8LWAq55H+rZKP7/32zl4pnxRVi4X0QWpOVkDhNeku wXmzmVPJcvNiuudeXZkUQ7kC3Nk9xAm2jaNZsiascoGungxRHi95OUIXFDz5yYpMLsok ZPF3ltxXHWG+5fZNjqWUbq43EobR5BInBAXhvLEXHSxj/thX/MXl5a9hVwia7ZdvjEpi JdZBdl8YbQao5w0zwp0hzREa2TA7DaMVF7ij8SJi3rozmx+nycBUXj5pgqwNKpyL6A7Y P7OQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=SV/pHmcKLjGKQj9pCB7HxcOR0oiX2OU+rfDWdzRjVcc=; b=Nze/51BKYvuRXifU5HIHCxQ9oVQe2PApQIDQj9QpFWdtBXZ9KxbTs5AjJo2e6PWXVb Rrbi+373GDYpkQOftIO/dxud/5h4MareVWPZO3FJn8/JuTrF09RK8RogWNzXE/yKGR3R xPNSVNS+UNlUVRGpDzcvSv/jcHZQj07k2ba4BXVK18BLK13NCm1D5UFmsuvNRPQ7on4A psE/4rTSWFrBxrGRHVoiDI4jkQ2fQv/BhW7Ax3arW/v40HCdJdKciKrYUGZYJRWbGnnj i1QvY7iEW8sEWGnonLyTHdRLKDC6LgHT1rVKaQV7kBQiodVY2qeP8rE/psZGjy45X4s8 LaCQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw113RoOAQ/CKHzc2JsfK0+UWMOgmm0CDW4cOqTzgXnY+MMD27EsVA 3UNR9kpkex978CKvREVfIdNbi0LZvg== X-Received: by 10.129.118.68 with SMTP id j4mr3276236ywk.10.1499970349701; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.37.54.37 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:25:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87shi08bx5.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-Google-Sender-Auth: mycSQw7HWFfqm1biG-wM06-b2sA X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c09::233 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:216594 Archived-At: --f403045ef4dede1f730554370f5e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Perhaps you should ask why Richard decided that Magit, among all of the many non-FSF copyright assigned packages that emacs users recommend to one another, was so intolerable as to justify suggesting mounting a - to my mind doomed - competing project. It was not as if all of those recommendations are for some proprietary or non-GPL-V3+ package. Happily the community has rallied to Jonas' cause and will now try to bring Magit into the FSF fold. /john --f403045ef4dede1f730554370f5e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Perhaps you should ask why Ri= chard decided that Magit, among all
of th= e many non-FSF copyright assigned packages that emacs users
recommend to one another, was so intolerable as to justi= fy suggesting
mounting a - to my mind doo= med - competing project.=C2=A0 It was not as if
all of those recommendations are for some proprietary or non-GPL-V3+=
package.

Happily the community has rallied= to Jonas' cause and will now try to
= bring Magit into the FSF fold.

=
/john

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