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.tangents Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:59:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k0fn8od1.fsf@gnus.org> <83y242ip0a.fsf@gnu.org> <87ilv6nzk5.fsf@yahoo.com> 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="36354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-tangents@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, akira@akirakyle.com, larsi@gnus.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 08:01:37 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1n3us5-0009J4-9m for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 08:01:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34762 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3us3-0007QM-VF for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:01:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3uqI-0007Nd-WA for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50546 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 1n3uqI-00065V-BN; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:59:46 -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=NUQ2h7s6irX7PIFssk1uoJERZZdBMsp+4hVG5uQyq0Q=; b=nih89fixlOeD KMkBr3RTiuO39pEdGRL0p0TLXrx6oleh9no+LWyIfqxDAzpqL0X1FOIUsia6/yECWQeXoJGTLo+Le n3mdKD53ibIfiJ+XBLQx2+LGSnI7aN/9UOr9/qd17DRsF+3fo2WR2NvnWWL6o/WQreCyT11GnSt0L wTvaeImFgrWYhAABM6N6gwb+MSxFWSbNJDTfO3rT9DGBTaP7dlYWzsuF1dmX7m5OpClJ1NqWjqtI5 Q4wBy2GKrBCzt7ZNmeTD+YScFW9VBGtayT8A/UhHMiJ4lkjxF8XHyMt6s7z9OoHEctkA3HoVwvsNg vSOcB/0nWH/zRXz2k1y03g==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3uqI-0006IQ-J9; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:59:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:18:50 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:765 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. ]]] > What is your view on the GNU software that does not have a copyright > assignment, and not even a DCO? It is free software, but the FSF cannot enforce the copyleft for it. Also, the more contributors it has, the more risk that one will not have had the right to contribute. > IMO, it would be more important for Glibc and GCC to maintain the > copyright assignment than it is for Emacs. I agree completely. Those developers made a grave, foolish mistake. I wish I could have stopped them. I will do everything within my power to prevent more such mistakes. -- 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)