From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:11:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281100286 24608 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 13:11:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 15:11:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhMhn-0003Gx-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:11:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37377 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhMhm-0004tY-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38586 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhMhh-0004tS-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhMhe-00061a-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm5.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.5]:19457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhMhe-000616-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost6.adm.correo ([10.20.102.127]) by IMPaqm5.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id qyUx1e0052kvMAa3R1B2yt; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:11:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.38.247]) by IMPmailhost6.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id r1B11e0055KwfZf1m1B1U1; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:11:02 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 21728662D6; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:11:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:12:11 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128379 Archived-At: > Anybody, including a private corporation, can use the FSF codebase to > develop their variants, but Gnu Emacs can't use their enhancements to > enrich itself. That is not inherently the case. GNU Emacs (and many other of the GNU projects that enforce the FSF copyright policy) does include enhancements provided by private corporations. The corporation simply has to sign the necessary paperwork, which they usually do without much trouble. Stefan