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: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:14 -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 1500082644 16083 195.159.176.226 (15 Jul 2017 01:37:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Filipe Silva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 15 03:37:20 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 1dWC1H-0003zz-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 03:37:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWC1N-0003y5-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45042) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWC0M-0003wJ-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWC0L-00054a-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWC0E-0004xL-G8; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dWC0E-0004A3-1n; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:36:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Filipe Silva on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:23:24 -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:216669 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. ]]] > What a sad state of affairs we are in regarding these legal aspects. The laws were set up to help nonfree software. We have to back-drive them to get a result that wasn't envisioned. This is why copyleft is sometimes called a legal hack. I agree it is a sad state of affairs. But that is what we find ourselves in. It is up to us to try to win freedom out of this. -- 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.