From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k0fn8od1.fsf@gnus.org> <83y242ip0a.fsf@gnu.org> <87ilv6nzk5.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22732"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, akira@akirakyle.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 05:27:28 2021 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 1n39Vo-0005iX-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:27:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45168 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39Vm-0001aa-S1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UD-0007cK-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38688 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UD-0008BZ-0a; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:49 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=u+/wHJlgG/fXC2z6sT7MkYt0jfplbW2V1RoSrHTiKng=; b=SmBiwb82dgtT +RZyDA9t/BImzYA50vHh4QaFRLGGjgx8D8GX67um+GVqColDnfdVTyQoefxT02/IdAkobjpq56tYh T38J8/b6JNo8pztNHTofXmvedVSLmYV5glYAqjYhucMIwsJoCmTUmpcstdwmpLMeEb6DwQKMnJL6Z Y1ex3Bc6LcFdOmXjjT0sp9QUNnLDnQO2510QAEcY2ol4MuhHz06HTIabLsVJKk9ycSf/UL9q7B5kZ Yf2BKueahLPNE3oL5BRLFLdOHiFSzuFxUyMdnl0wz7VMMd1q+eUfdJZWiEKWgzCYiJKF3rbb/UFLu LYPgYvj5TMZT/exWJSFX4g==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UD-00052T-7A; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:20:03 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283703 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. ]]] The Glibc and GCC developers made a bad decision last June. The DCO they are using is full of gaps, and they don't get it from all the authors. A copyright assignment is much better. I'm working on better DCO which is intended to correct some of its problems. However, it will still be second best. We will continue to get copyright assignments, not DCOs. In addition to the copyright assignment (or substitute), we ask for employers' disclaimers. They do a different job, which is complementary to the job that an assignment does (and a DCO tries to do). Thus, using a DCO instead of an assignment does not make the process much easier or faster, unless the project does it carelessly. I ask lawyers how to keep the the copyleft strong, because that is a priority for the free software movement. I don't ask them whether that should be our priority, because that's the starting point. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)