Re: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 31.03.2013 18:06, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:35:41 +0200
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>>>> Thanks giving another example wrt to the noxious results of
>>>> copyright assigment policy, which undermines goals of GPL.
>>>
>>> Why pushing your agenda against copyright assignment into this thread?
>>
>> Copyright assignment policy stifles cooperation, encourages bad manners, spreads FUD.
>
> But saying that in GNU forums is rude and off-topic.  Please do this
> somewhere else.
>
>
>

Hi Eli,

please consider the case at stake: a great library like psgml.el, which delivered solutions hardly
found elsewhere, was kept nearly unknown for more than a decade.

Don't you accept there is a difference between not bundling code and not mentioning it?
Not to say: discourage it's use.

If you might consider the effect already visible in this thread, you will remark the notion of the explicit consentement of authors for a change or republishing as so 
called matter of respect.

Don't you see the danger which raises for all free software from  there?
All legal tracts and stances are interpreted in the light of habit.
If a court notices the habit of requesting personal consentements for otherwise GPLed code changes as a need,
the story of free software might be over.

Best regards,

Andreas