From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:12:24 +0700 Message-ID: References: <92adf498-4d85-ae74-90ed-c912e50af626@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500027946 20240 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2017 10:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers , Filipe Silva To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 14 12:25:42 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 1dVxmw-0004Yz-45 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:25:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxmz-0005Nz-Re for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43110) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxaa-000256-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxaZ-0005ub-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-it0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::231]:34149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxaZ-0005u4-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-it0-x231.google.com with SMTP id v202so7571313itb.1 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:45 -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=eVIIXGlpHKTacrdPdOnuCOUZ116aikWry9nHxVYEXSg=; b=tR6ha60sCJQlyhAIxOvvHC4mUadswh7D7x2Jv8ELgUSY/0sLDe/da8VQJ2H2JsHDvm NkAfar9t9eMNxjaBWKn9uwogprosf76td3cpiG8IazhlDbAxnWqkHbJ8+F5b1FWjEQUo qEedVwAWuQgFhFU+t69EX4og17p82iScLBLtNEjEIJXZiFMr0l+kRYonsb48lmpOn99J /LULe/3gxbWULRleJvw+F+PAgdxbHdC5T+imbWzOGyG/LXnkbY0csfopUNE4xJ/9oj1D 4Cra5q8q/+hEkDNFPYpwBsYPpEtYasR4wVBwISJwdjXBR6xaTF93N8OcQDBJtxAlrWDz Nxqg== 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=eVIIXGlpHKTacrdPdOnuCOUZ116aikWry9nHxVYEXSg=; b=kAKU8AiGomT4gvv8pKlx2b30/dA+rUaixrgFHGI9ssNFOEYaZMYl/+/HR3gGx/AZ6Z tEYc8uenR737VqAswkATSCPeWkI7kDiJr5qN5gTHWOE4w518c+9CgT/r7dTCv7US1t7i icy6Du7BrCIKUmGndsWGoe7TBvMZ8b64/ZANCyhtQK/5OFuDDi5NHfAzTo4skQpBKEDM HiuW4nYh/IR9BMxGviVvpdmi0bhTH/zMx7XzpUnjr2yzCUirLjPbDF/0fy4QkejQesid kEwZNDAG5scL0ZPuR7vlhIFLBsWeCS5ftlJds0KJ0UuCqYoKkQ+GYRZuo+3zTYzQZx72 zpQw== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw113AqhH8zKa5zFkPcgXDFLw2ExTvA+mG2iMPKG53lLtStV+En49p LSRU+5RBUFyvLo3xAtxNZB+Lm/i8IA== X-Received: by 10.36.71.1 with SMTP id t1mr1219604itb.105.1500027165263; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.79.128.213 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <92adf498-4d85-ae74-90ed-c912e50af626@yandex.ru> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZxQL5vJ6huvRdpVIOA5Rma4lJXE X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::231 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:216646 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: >> One specific case is if you yourself go evil and decide to stop >> distributing your package freely and make it non-free. As a copyright >> holder, you legally can do that. > > If I'm the copyright owner, and I decide to release the next version as > proprietary, I'm of course able to do that. > > That shouldn't stop FSF from distributing the previous version of the > software, though, because it's been released under a Free Software license > already. So protecting against this scenario doesn't seem necessary. Yes, but the free previous version is likely to be at a disadvantage against the now-non-free version led by the original developer. It will have a much reduced user base. > Also IANAL. (Me too.)