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: copyright assignment Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:08:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83bkzr92ds.fsf@gnu.org> 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="8884"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: strings.stringsandstrings@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 06:14:50 2022 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 1nElVB-00028s-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:14:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55954 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nElV9-0002Cy-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nElOw-00072H-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:08:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=35512 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 1nElOv-0004K0-Po; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:08:21 -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=9CkjPrgHbUJ5nA8LP1AIsoONad9bbvaserbIm78NsfM=; b=Yej/7pxMSp1W sXKSN4t53Jnyn/uqlKrQRmBTnZHB224QNpNGMnrRD6ZqKkHKCpFSY/GtfELbBwMvWw8DXQpmw9rcf GlCGAgNHCaVTk3twMt/PdFiRIlIwwX8CMMOew3F3Hd9XqCjgXbbbPFnZZw4lyVJcZUkLZyyFVRm+N K0htodgFVTIRQTiQUxAqpxAy3sN3BlljdEcs/8FB98F5JeKgXGbAtXKcuhdKbIoeb1+A9QTfeJP/v 2SLaPREAL0+aa65yGviRdOCZzoCx0dN7kDIsh6BMKXR0pBxQ5IMr6MsHDW2zYz/zlzbsMDl6Y83aw ayyfMWSY5VFHBJac1+Vj3A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nElOv-000629-FG; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:08:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83bkzr92ds.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:38:39 +0200) 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:285717 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 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. -- 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)