From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"John Yates" <john@yates-sheets.org>
Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:12:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8e5ae13-6359-c73d-b64c-55a98f0b105b@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwkUWMGU7Wgki6-w63kA63mt5Cwyj-FOheKQ6ss5iStHy7O4w@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/13/2017 11:48 AM, Filipe Silva wrote:
> What harm will descent upon us all if an official component of emacs
> is distributed which hasn't had it's copyright assigned to FSF?
I can easily imagine scenarios where an uncooperative or unresponsive
contributor would make GPL enforcement significantly more difficult for
the FSF. These enforcement actions (which mostly are unpublicized) have
nonzero legal cost, and increasing their cost would not be a good thing.
Projects that don't care about enforcement, or care about it less, don't
need to worry about this sort of thing. The GNU Project cares about
enforcement.
I should mention that I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
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2017-07-13 17:16 ` Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-13 18:06 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:25 ` John Yates
2017-07-13 18:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:36 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 18:48 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:08 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 19:11 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-07-13 19:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-14 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-13 19:23 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:31 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-13 19:56 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 20:07 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-14 10:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-14 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-18 6:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 7:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-18 17:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-19 9:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-19 11:56 ` tomas
2017-07-19 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
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