From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499995271 15537 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2017 01:21:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Filipe Silva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 14 03:21:04 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 1dVpHv-0003Ob-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:20:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpI0-0005ds-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpHF-0005dc-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpHF-0007oE-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpHB-0007mS-L7; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpHA-0002PR-OY; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:12 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Filipe Silva on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:16:21 -0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:216622 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The purpose of collecting copyright assignments for GNU Emacs (and some other GNU packages) is so that the FSF can enforce the GPL in court if someone distributes nonfree copies. Such distribution violates the GPL, but if nobody enforces the license in court, the violater can get away with continuing it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.