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: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:56:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83vaffd93f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517612156 16328 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 22:55:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, georgedp@orbitalimpact.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 23:55:51 2018 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 1ehkEw-0002cH-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 23:55:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39275 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkGx-0006U5-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkFk-0006RJ-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkFj-0006gP-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkFc-0006bj-Hu; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkFb-0003su-7b; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:56:07 -0500 In-reply-to: <83vaffd93f.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:39:00 +0200) 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:222447 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. ]]] > > It is an unlimited nonexclusive license; it says you can use your own > > code/text "as you see fit". It may say you need to inform us the > > first time you want to do this, and then you get the unlimited > > nonexclusive license forever after. > In my assignments, both those from 20 years ago, and those from the > recent years, there's no such caveat as described in the last sentence > above. I'm just given "nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully paid up and > non-cancellable worldwide rights to use [the code I developed], as > Developer sees fit." I recall that SOME of our assignments used to say the developer had to ask for the nonexclusive license, and would then automatically receive it. But it has been many years since I signed the assignments myself, and I don't know whether we ever use that wording nowadays. It doesn't make a difference in practice. With the other wording that make sit an option to request the nonexclusive license, the contributor can immediately exercise the option. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.