From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:27 -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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="10711"; 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 Sun May 10 04:30:10 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 1jXbjG-0002hL-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 04:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45084 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbjE-0001x7-Cb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbib-0000ZE-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbia-0006AS-UK; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbiZ-0004re-8N; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:27 -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:249615 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. ]]] > > 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? The copyright assignment is not a political statement. Contributors to the GNU Project do not have to agree with the free software movement (although we hope they will), and certainly not with my personal views. Ridicule is a powerful weapon, so I urge you not to discourage people from using it against companies that attack freedom. We shouldn't have to argue with one mouth tied behind our backs. But contributing to GNU software doesn't state an opinion about that. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)