From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:35:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <83imh5hby1.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8qxjpka.fsf@mbork.pl> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="12458"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 15:35:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPe0-00039B-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 15:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50188 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPdy-0001fD-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:35:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPdX-0001Et-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPdV-0000dI-NJ; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPdV-0008MJ-BM; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:35:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o8qxjpka.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sat, 09 May 2020 13:49:54 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249429 Archived-At: > Finally, above practical aspects, assigning copyright is declaring > support for an idea larger than the FSF itself. It's a political > declaration. Could someone officially confirm or deny the above paragraph? It is very much false. By assigning your copyright to the FSF you do just that and nothing else, it says nothing about what values you hold or wish to endorse. That is intentional, since the GNU project welcomes _anyone_ no matter what their political views are.