From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Copley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:07:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499976507 30269 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2017 20:08:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers , Yuri Khan To: Filipe Silva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 13 22:08:23 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 1dVkPM-0007Y8-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:08:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkPS-0005n5-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:08:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkOs-0005my-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkOr-0005i9-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ua0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::22a]:33047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkOr-0005hf-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ua0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id g13so21823513uaj.0 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:07:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=QKjjQ2WIG8kyBhe4d3QnY41Yp7X93gacPhwRTUri4tM=; b=kdqGRi+yTSF/+ukXH6TSpLdVSbQhQrn0BunqMPLevRXogCbN28PiHp2YzIpDDzjtLJ 3rCkKmvakaZksmEgCH0UBHDX2NMtAGultYvCmjd+vky8C6fyoyPD8sV72ASuYJXsoWWB 1UkchtVbJDT5aZW2JXklaPExIYAm5zJDJzWUSA7fe38fU5b6jduo+eKgsBGrAWuWcg+5 6O4aZamNd2apeiOWl17v2OMLDcU4Fav9ATfbPMcOw0vF+FsqjBW25E4rczjQurmdyRw1 1Ep8h+7sgjIZCcfbRjfEN68GC33vJF5HkPii1BmVweKg0tvn3aO6Ua8cYHSavcPI49D5 zEeg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=QKjjQ2WIG8kyBhe4d3QnY41Yp7X93gacPhwRTUri4tM=; b=owJyJaARwRqr3rv/VRWp7DP5iNds+Mk1wbHWRZSlkwTPtXeB00heWgDHLjaQKlQ2wQ SxMW6GpZYDkMDnKWEWFK/UiFtJ2913YQZ1szu2yShgFD9n+ke4Tm8IiP7M7PNYawHz2q 7QB/J1l2GeAK05wmhjsoZLU6fdCeQDn/sk0N2rYRQ+9f0+XcC2BlHsM6H2CQu3tD7BSd 1rRk+ngYnWLo98OjwbeZ3Qez3uwa9N61j4/l7oGV9mj6mBxgQlbNo/SgawhY/Klqiw5e w5DhWkeC8FralsEU5/hkZzUt/BSvwGyCXhIETO1CLmQUGbjkFS2Hv3ZnP8yPynT7C0KF 9ekQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw113TlSDFJhz34Xr8yZQj0OnTK+GsIKBkvLdAcs3WZKzyIoMU4V6z HE8lkPMEKBXIyVmgVawShqDmrm6tmw== X-Received: by 10.159.57.208 with SMTP id p16mr3187902uag.136.1499976468697; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.176.78.1 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:07:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c08::22a 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:216613 Archived-At: On 13 July 2017 at 20:56, Filipe Silva wrote: > Yes I've tries that. It does not go as deep into the question as this > thread. > > I mean the fact that a copyright owner can go rogue and change a license > alone without asking if the other copyright owners would agree and at the > same time all the copyright owners must act in cooperation in order to > enforce a license. This is is a sad state of affairs. OK, thanks. That was the paragraph of Karl's email I found least plausible. Copyright assignment doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. A declaration that the code is being released under the appropriate licence should be enough.