From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:29:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gkkxbio.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515BE542.80807@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:16:02 +0200")
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> CA, as we learned, is partly privately negotiated.
Not to my knowledge.
The copyright assignment is signed by contributors. I'm not aware of
any negociations, and I'd be surprised to learn that there are private
negociations.
> To evaluate the legal state of different parts in Emacs wrt CA will
> need one or more lawyers.
This suggests that the copyright status of Emacs is uncertain.
I hope you understand it is quite a serious statement and requires
some evidence.
The copyright status for code in Org's code is very clear, and I think
this is also the case for the copyright status of the rest of Emacs.
I sometimes get impatient when I have to wait for the FSF Copyright
Clerk to handle new copyright assignments for a new contributor, but
I know he has a lot of work and he's doing a great job.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-03 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-31 11:49 Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml Florian v. Savigny
2013-03-31 13:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-03-31 14:53 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-31 15:09 ` Bastien
2013-03-31 15:33 ` Bastien
2013-03-31 15:36 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-31 15:46 ` Bastien
2013-03-31 15:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-31 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-31 16:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-31 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-31 19:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-31 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-31 21:56 ` Florian v. Savigny
2013-04-01 16:08 ` Bastien
2013-04-01 17:24 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <mailman.23150.1364742598.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-02 8:54 ` Nicolas Neuss
2013-04-03 7:54 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-03 8:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-04-03 8:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-03 8:29 ` Bastien [this message]
2013-04-03 12:03 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.23376.1364990549.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-03 17:04 ` B. T. Raven
2013-04-04 8:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-03 10:02 ` Phillip Lord
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