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 10:17:11 -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="54813"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?To=3A_Jo=C3=83=C2=A3o_T=C3=83=C2=A1vora_=3Cjoaotavora=40gmail?= =?UTF-8?Q?=2Ecom=3E=0A?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 16:18:03 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 1jXQIl-000EAu-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 16:18:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35148 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXQIj-00057u-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 10:18:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXQHx-0003mq-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 10:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXQHw-0004nH-73; Sat, 09 May 2020 10:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXQHv-0005wx-4a; Sat, 09 May 2020 10:17:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: =?UTF-8?Q?In-Reply-To=3A_=09=3CCALDnm53f-Uo4vV402L+Pn+NAKVT=5FaucifV9FmSJ?= =?UTF-8?Q?dyXetDR-bNA=40mail=2Egmail=2Ecom=3E=0A=09=28message_from_Jo?= =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=83=C2=A3o_T=C3=83=C2=A1vora_on_Sat=2C_9_May_2020_14=3A51=3A?= =?UTF-8?Q?18_+0100=29=0A?= 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:249442 Archived-At: I don't resist asking: does relinquishing copyright of a work to the "Free Software Foundation" a "nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom" really say nothing about what values one wishes to endorse? Those are the values the FSF promotes, not the person assigning their copyright to the FSF. They also do not "relinquishing" their rights; after signing a copyright assignment you still can use the code you wrote as you see fit, even license it under a non-free license.