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 22:58:48 -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="30670"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Guy Gastineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 05:43:13 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 1nF7U9-0007qw-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:43:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55024 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nF7U8-0006dv-2p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nF6nB-0004HX-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:58:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52568 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 1nF6nB-0000jr-Ma; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:58:49 -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=XxPmpzFcXchNoPmTumr4fl5WW9Wu74WJ0IABQVJxcmA=; b=B/3fMn9rF99+ 6xxtMypNL1Awfxvc29SEYXflDtfdt9Gzcz3kWYYYkmous9favE/De0VUa10Dk7SJsceqSkumS55JD aYRW1/7qVXc2sT44MpqwMRH0vupKOcURtW3wt6+81aNbSjQwcFItnF7eXJ4BwYdGg3ZiPuI0zpcf0 XDtYbWUy+beCMRb5OmblVXLXh8sNc+QskdncZn0jGQ43/zsP7jM71M+K+Fxo9o8kh6kzYMwQkbihB x9kw3YkWvERUH/AOXIsJ2ku8SAgGBKpVWpDYBq4qc/r7YMCmD8H3J5JeJahi3hvzdK0/fAwG3exra 2he5MIJcM68nCLhZmIsypA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nF6nA-0006AV-Tn; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:58:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Guy Gastineau on Tue, 1 Feb 2022 08:44:38 -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:285769 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. ]]] > > Copyright assignment is a simple process. > > Residents of some countries can do it entirely electronically. > Then in the next paragraph: > > Note that the disclaimer, like an assignment, involves you sending signed > paperwork to the FSF ... > So "residents of SOME countries can do it electronically" and "involves > sending SIGNED paperwork" are the literary bits by which I thought I'd need > to sign the copyright assignment form with my PGP key. That's true. But the point where this text may have given you the wrong idea is about WHEN you need to do that. You may have given us a clue about how to fix it to avoid that misunderstanding in the future. Thanks. -- 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)