From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:31:22 +0100 Message-ID: <19549.49818.270000.981978@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19549.44879.848292.639521@rgr.rgrjr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281300144 1649 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 20:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 20:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 08 22:42:20 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 1OiChI-0004SO-Ce for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:42:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiAaJ-0007Hx-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51857 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oi9Pi-0002fl-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohq3N-0004kZ-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from sun61.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.150]:34821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohq3N-0004kJ-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun61.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohq3J-0001qI-NU; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:31:33 +0100 Original-Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ohq3J-0002t6-DZ; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:31:33 +0100 Original-Received: from gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.193.16] helo=MARUTI.cs.bham.ac.uk) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Ohq3J-0005Fe-1G; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:31:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <19549.44879.848292.639521@rgr.rgrjr.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.92a under 23.2.1 [EmacsW32 Version 1.58 2010-08-02] (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:128428 Archived-At: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org writes: > The copyright issue is not about freedom, but about control. The FSF > has sensibly decided not to accept contributions it does not own, lest > the owner attempt to revoke permission to use them at a later date. Permission? For what? GPL software can be freely copied, modified, and redistributed. There is no way to restrain anybody from doing it. So, I am not sure what permission you are thinking of. Cheers, Uday