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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: strings.stringsandstrings@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: copyright assignment
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:08:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nElOv-000629-FG@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkzr92ds.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:38:39 +0200)

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  > > I am a little confused.  It says we need to do it each time we submit work.  I assume this means, once we
  > > cumulatively reach >=15 lines of sloc we then retroactively give our copyright assignment to the work, but
  > > then we need to reassign the copyright holding to fsf for future contribution?

  > Yes.  But this is a one-time procedure, there's no need to assign the
  > copyright each time you submit a contribution.

Could a change in the wording make this clearer to new contributors?

  > > I have started putting my pgp key on some keyservers.  Can I send it to a gnu or fsf specific keyserver? 
  > > Should I just export it and send that to you all here in the mailing list?
  > > I assume then I just need to sign a text document saying whatever legal magic we need with said pgp key
  > > and send it here?

Guy, could you tell us what led you to think there was something
you needed to do with GPG at the outset?  Was it anything we said?

Maybe we could make it clearer, if we knew exactly what/where it is.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-01  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31 16:15 copyright assignment Guy Gastineau
2022-01-31 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-31 19:56   ` Guy Gastineau
2022-01-31 20:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-01  5:08   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-02-01 13:44     ` Guy Gastineau
2022-02-02  3:58       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-04-23 15:20 Copyright Assignment Forty Five
2024-04-23 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-28 17:33 Copyright assignment Pedro Morais
2024-03-28 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-27  3:23 Artem Yurchenko
2024-03-27 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-05 21:29 Petter Sakrihei Storvik
2024-02-06  3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-02 18:35 Kai Ma
2024-02-02 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-02 19:40   ` Kai Ma
2023-12-31  9:53 Slava Akhmechet
2023-12-31 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-31 10:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-02 12:11 Copyright Assignment Jinyi Xian
2023-10-02 16:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-02 16:33   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-02 22:18     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-02 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-09 15:43 Copyright assignment Axel Forsman
2023-09-09 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-09 16:35 ` Eshel Yaron
2023-09-09 18:00   ` Axel Forsman
2023-09-09 18:57     ` Eshel Yaron
2023-09-11 17:38       ` Axel Forsman
2023-09-08 17:38 Copyright Assignment Mitch Kyle
2023-09-08 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21  2:04 Copyright assignment Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-21  3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-21  3:22   ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-21  3:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-21  7:44   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-21 11:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21 13:08       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-12-13 21:45       ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-14 19:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 20:32           ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-15  6:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-16 23:01               ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-17  7:43                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 20:09       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-12-14 20:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 20:36           ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-15  6:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 21:41           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-12-14 22:09             ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-14 22:12               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-12-15  6:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-15 13:00               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-23 19:14     ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24  8:13       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-28 21:58         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23 19:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24  5:11   ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-28 21:58     ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-10  7:55 Roman Rudakov
2022-10-10  8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-05 21:38 Greg Pfeil
2022-10-06  6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 13:11 Gautier Ponsinet
2022-07-10 13:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-21 12:12 Akib Azmain Turja
2022-03-21 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 18:53 Copyright Assignment Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-11-26 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 22:51   ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-11-26 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-13 18:13 Copyright assignment Psionic K
2021-10-13 18:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-12  7:24 Aaron Gonzales
2021-04-12 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 11:05 Copyright Assignment Leon Vack
2020-12-20 17:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-03 18:42 Valentin Herrmann
2020-12-03 23:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-18 11:33 Copyright assignment jakub-w
2020-10-18 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 16:02 Copyright Assignment Fox Kiester
2020-09-26 16:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-26 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-21 16:25 Copyright assignment Dan Harms
2020-09-22 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-22 15:39 copyright assignment yyoncho
2020-05-22 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-03 16:58 Copyright Assignment Alexander Adolf
2020-03-03 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 13:57 SK Kim
2020-03-02 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-18 22:39 Luke Culpepper
2020-02-19 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-14  0:02 Copyright assignment Morgan Smith
2020-02-14  8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 18:13 Theodor Thornhill
2020-01-08 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-09 11:33 Luca Nassi
2019-12-09 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20  9:21 Vladimir Kazanov
2019-11-20 10:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-26  9:32 copyright assignment akrl
2018-07-26 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-26  8:25 akrl
2018-07-26 18:22 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-27  8:02   ` akrl
2018-03-25 12:16 Copyright Assignment Shanavas M
2018-03-25 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-27 16:09 copyright assignment 重村道人
2016-12-27 17:56 ` John Wiegley
2016-09-25 20:07 Copyright assignment Tianxiang Xiong
2016-09-25 20:48 ` John Wiegley
2016-09-25 20:53   ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-03-08 21:58 Copyright Assignment Matt Briggs
2016-03-09 19:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-09 21:26   ` John Wiegley
2005-08-20  9:00 Copyright assignment Jérôme Marant
2005-08-21  5:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-21 12:04   ` drkm
2005-08-21 16:14   ` Jérôme Marant
2005-08-22  0:05   ` Richard M. Stallman

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