From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jean-Christophe Helary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:49:21 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1500553768.497130.1046984072.1622AF4D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <837ez3b4yd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500558613 18457 195.159.176.226 (20 Jul 2017 13:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Rankin , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 20 15:50:00 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 1dYBq2-0003tC-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:49:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38190 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYBq4-0005wR-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYBpf-0005j9-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYBpf-0001Xf-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf0-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::244]:38161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYBpY-0001O6-EG; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf0-x244.google.com with SMTP id c23so2487151pfe.5; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:49:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=ymZiMgm7pi36p3oT/NfESdPkie10RaUVOihN83maGic=; b=vWImRw5MwemZF3qxZRlRYseHiB141JFA0nt+gofZBDGTqXjP8DLivukvldPJuWy+yC 5O7KtUbq0Rz1PJLw/gesDZEli1QubMTwtpZanCfw7XyY4pVGMit1C/+NEF7KFn5YGPLi cDc85tJCZmRwT5LqnfXR7tjOLMLs6K1O6Q2LtxS4fNmvf49hs0HhIIt8fGmr5qd0gkQN teRIuVP5N20cIh1clbn+u8bfTVBPHR8PkUUNP4i7ix+gT4j2aYmyqqsExfhNro1Ep+oC +DMc+MBNrkck727eTLaza+VtzZsGwRqa2pe/o1dsKLjy00xboaC0iJLknHPDLc498IQG 9yuQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=ymZiMgm7pi36p3oT/NfESdPkie10RaUVOihN83maGic=; b=O3VZBxzGjLbfPRVxEk4Ttx6Psq2Um4aS+XbemEcdmISS3YA6ehbxCsS/xCTrPBZzjb WzmZNYORIVMDX9bglVNVHXH2tEuyvGbbJjQCFMPpCkwveM6+STK7CQd1YKdH5qYNvsTf mx41gC6HZD/FSm7HMh56oW2oZRPksAJ4Lj6SeUuJx4pKzymP/TxMNY9sVqAnX8IbW2kQ 3p8nOrBj1oBSOdmAKKzHmjGXZoxlrHF19KygrvGg1Tv9LpQd5kiquDWQGdr5oSiXIBHE zF4QhrYdT3B22ifqnsJmFusWoVU2g2Zu1iydYgw3DTatOVkjaUZ/a0vOP+Vs5jEhUjs0 vw7Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw110lclaVsnZhq7JUgvJIJF1J5LGZA5b1Z9N0NHUkYq83YeV4smny a0Nf+pnscR8oT+KuvEs= X-Received: by 10.98.252.23 with SMTP id e23mr3936945pfh.277.1500558565466; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.24.55] (pl2587.ag0304.nttpc.ne.jp. [128.53.196.27]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c63sm5187619pfk.79.2017.07.20.06.49.23 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:49:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <837ez3b4yd.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::244 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:216889 Archived-At: > On Jul 20, 2017, at 22:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Paul Rankin >> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:29:28 +1000 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> All of this is based on the assumption that people *want* to assign >> their copyright to FSF. This is not the case. I develop a couple of >> packages and I would never assign my copyright. Copyright isn't just >> some legal nuisance, to many people it's something pretty sacred. It's a >> stamp that says "I made this, I contributed this to the world." The >> notion that I should be "reminded" or "educated" that in developing >> Emacs packages that my goal should be to assign my copyright to FSF is >> beyond insulting. > > I think you might misunderstand the nature and the essence of the > copyright assignment: it doesn't in any way diminish the author's > rights on his/her code. Here's a direct citation from > > https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignment-at-the-fsf Maybe such explanations should be made more visible on the FSF page. Jean-Christophe