From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: magit copyright assignments
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1sUHi3-0005mF-1W@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bk2xgh8i.fsf@jeremybryant.net> (message from Jeremy Bryant on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:27:25 +0100)
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> > For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
> > should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
> > per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
> > included in Emacs.
> So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright
> assignment form, which names Emacs. Would this not be sufficient?
Yes and no.
Since Magit is not part of Emacs, interpreting the Emacs assignment in
a strict sense says it does not cover magit now.
However, we aim to make magit part of Emacs.
So a lawyer gave me the advice that you've quoted above,
to clarify that the Emacs assignmets DO cover magit.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-18 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-13 15:50 magit copyright assignments Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-13 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-13 21:39 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-14 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-15 20:10 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-15 20:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-16 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-16 5:53 ` Lele Gaifax
2024-07-16 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-16 17:23 ` Lele Gaifax
2024-07-16 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-16 19:09 ` Lele Gaifax
2024-07-18 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-18 5:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-16 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-16 21:27 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-17 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-17 13:53 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-18 3:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2024-07-18 14:02 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-18 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18 16:53 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-18 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18 20:36 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-07-19 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
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