Questions about Copyright Assignment

Questions about Copyright Assignment

[metal alpaca]

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Hello, I have a few questions regarding copyright assignment:

1 ) Do I have to get my school/employer to sign anything?
2 ) If I change schools/employers, will I have to redo the whole process?
3 ) If I add a package to ELPA, then change to a school/employer where I’m
no longer able to assign copyright, then would I no longer be able to push
changes to that package?

Thanks!

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Re: Questions about Copyright Assignment

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: metal alpaca <ml3628800@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:24:36 -0500
> 
> Hello, I have a few questions regarding copyright assignment:
> 
> 1 ) Do I have to get my school/employer to sign anything?
> 2 ) If I change schools/employers, will I have to redo the whole process?
> 3 ) If I add a package to ELPA, then change to a school/employer where I’m no longer able to assign
> copyright, then would I no longer be able to push changes to that package?

Please write to Craig Topham <copyright-clerk@fsf.org> and ask him
these questions.  He will probably want to know the details of your
relationship with your school and/or the contract with your employer,
but his responses are the definitive ones.  We here are not lawyers
and cannot give you the answers to your questions.

Re: Questions about Copyright Assignment

[metal alpaca]

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Okay, thank you!

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 3:35 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: metal alpaca <ml3628800@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:24:36 -0500
> >
> > Hello, I have a few questions regarding copyright assignment:
> >
> > 1 ) Do I have to get my school/employer to sign anything?
> > 2 ) If I change schools/employers, will I have to redo the whole process?
> > 3 ) If I add a package to ELPA, then change to a school/employer where
> I’m no longer able to assign
> > copyright, then would I no longer be able to push changes to that
> package?
>
> Please write to Craig Topham <copyright-clerk@fsf.org> and ask him
> these questions.  He will probably want to know the details of your
> relationship with your school and/or the contract with your employer,
> but his responses are the definitive ones.  We here are not lawyers
> and cannot give you the answers to your questions.
>

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Questions about copyright assignment

[Richard Brežák]

Hi,

I'd like to get the copyright assignment paperwork done, so
that I could eventualy contribute to Emacs. I'm from Slovakia so I'm
guessing I'll have to send everything physically via mail.

Thanks
-- 
Richard Brežák

Re: Questions about copyright assignment

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Brežák <richard@brezak.sk>
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:50:40 +0100
> 
> I'd like to get the copyright assignment paperwork done, so
> that I could eventualy contribute to Emacs. I'm from Slovakia so I'm
> guessing I'll have to send everything physically via mail.

Thanks, form sent off-list.