From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: jbuehler@hekimian.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] 21.3.50 for Cygwin: patch 7
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:21:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18MyBB-00062Y-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xel8nduzk.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk)
Before you can contribute any major changes to _any_ GNU software
and have it incorporated into the _official_ releases, you need to
sign over your copyright to the FSF.
This applies only to some GNU packages--those that are FSF-copyrighted.
When people contribute a package to GNU, they can either keep the
copyright or transfer it to the FSF. If they transfer it to the FSF,
then we follow these procedures. If the developers keep the copyright,
it is up to them to decide what to do.
Even if you have a "generic assigment" covering all changes to Emacs,
you will typically sign a specific assignment paper if you contribute
a larger piece of work (such as a lisp package).
Our lawyer said that an general assignment of Emacs changes can cover
a new Lisp package provided the contributor formally tells us to
consider the package a "change to Emacs".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-13 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-10 21:48 [PATCHES] 21.3.50 for Cygwin: patch 7 Joe Buehler
2002-12-11 0:01 ` Kim F. Storm
[not found] ` <3DF67390.2020106@hekimian.com>
2002-12-11 0:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-12-12 14:30 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-12 16:16 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-12 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-13 22:21 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-12 17:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-12-13 22:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-12-12 18:14 ` Paul Eggert
2002-12-13 15:14 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-14 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-16 14:37 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-16 15:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-12-16 17:33 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-18 10:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-12-18 13:46 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-18 16:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-12-19 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-11 19:53 ` Jason Rumney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-16 15:58 jasonr
2002-12-16 16:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
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