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 22:29:42 -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> <83v9l5fmwu.fsf@gnu.org> 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="18372"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 04:32:13 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 1jXblF-0004ga-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 04:32:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52612 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXblD-0005bT-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbiq-00013a-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbiq-0008ID-1O; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbio-00056g-D3; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83v9l5fmwu.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 May 2020 13:00:33 +0300) 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:249619 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. ]]] > > I think the reason some people take issue with it is seeing their > > names vanish from the first few lines of the source file, and be > > replaced by something they don't agree with, or don't understand. > I don't know where that rumor comes from, but it's false: this never > happens, except when the author/maintainer disappears from the face of > the earth, and even then it takes many years. We delete Maintainer header fields if the person listed stops maintaining that code. But why do we ever delete Author fields? If there is a good reason to delete Author fields, we could, if the original author wishes, add a file header field "Original author:" to list the original author's name. We could agree to keep that as long as that file or package is still recognizably distinct. Is there any reason not to do 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)