From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: mlang@delysid.org, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, jackhill@jackhill.us,
dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
Subject: Re: pull requests
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:03:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwo75xk3x.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jI1Tu-0004qn-0l@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:45:54 -0400")
> > > The legal problems: there could be code without copyright assignments.
> > I don't see the problem: many packages on Savannah don't have their
> > copyright assigned to the FSF, so the FSF's servers have been
> > distributing code without copyright assignments for years already.
> You have equated two different kinds of cases:
> FSF-copyrighted packages and non-FSF-copyrighted packages.
> Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, so we do not allow code into
> the repo unless it has a copyright assignment.
Yes, but it's a choice we make. Not following it wouldn't get us into
legal trouble.
> This is a legal policy, not a technical one.
It's a strategic decision, AFAIK, i.e. dictated neither by technical nor
legal requirements. Which is why the GNU project applies to some
packages and not all.
> To change it for merely technical reasons would be to let the tail wag
> the dog.
I was not arguing to change this policy. I was just pointing out that
whether or not there is non-assigned Emacs-related code somewhere on
gnu.org is not a legal problem, AFAIK. Neither do I think it would
weaken the FSF's hand in case it had to defend its copyright on the
actual Emacs code (assuming we keep following the policy that we only
accept copyright-assigned code into it, obviously).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-28 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-22 22:35 ELPA: where is chess developed? Jack Hill
2020-03-23 4:26 ` John Wiegley
2020-03-23 13:50 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-03-23 14:27 ` Mario Lang
2020-03-23 15:12 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-03-24 8:10 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-03-24 11:38 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-03-24 11:54 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-03-24 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-24 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-27 2:59 ` pull requests Richard Stallman
2020-03-27 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-28 2:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-28 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-27 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 13:00 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-27 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 14:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-27 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 15:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-27 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 19:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-27 19:34 ` 조성빈
2020-03-27 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 20:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-28 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-28 17:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-30 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 12:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 12:55 ` Yuri Khan
2020-03-30 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 13:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 14:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 15:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 17:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-02 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-17 3:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 16:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 8:25 ` 조성빈
2020-03-30 11:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 17:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-27 16:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-27 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-28 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-23 15:58 ` ELPA: where is chess developed? Stefan Monnier
2020-03-23 14:25 ` Mario Lang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-17 4:24 pull requests Zach Pearson
2020-04-17 8:11 ` Alex Ott
2020-04-17 16:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-21 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-21 2:12 ` Po Lu
2020-04-22 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-23 3:15 ` Po Lu
2020-04-17 16:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
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