From: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org
To: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The copyright issue
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:52:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19549.61887.613440.141458@rgr.rgrjr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19549.49818.270000.981978@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:31:22 +0100
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
If it is indeed GPL software. IIRC, somebody once contributed code that
his employer later claimed was not his to contribute. Having clear
ownership avoids such hassles. At the very least, the contributor must
claim to be the owner; if that's not true, it's not the FSF's fault.
-- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-07 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-05 9:12 The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Uday S Reddy
2010-08-05 12:15 ` The copyright issue Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-05 16:23 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-08-05 18:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-06 2:48 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-06 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-09 17:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-09 22:53 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-09 23:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-06 10:34 ` Adrian Robert
2010-08-05 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-06 8:12 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Richard Stallman
2010-08-06 9:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-06 15:36 ` Fren Zeee
2010-08-06 16:45 ` Bug on calendar (was: The copyright issue) Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-07 3:57 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-07 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-06 8:37 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-08-06 10:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-06 11:16 ` The copyright issue David Kastrup
2010-08-06 11:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-06 15:23 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-06 11:25 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Deniz Dogan
2010-08-06 12:01 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-13 15:52 ` The copyright issue Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-13 23:33 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-14 2:35 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-14 8:03 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-14 10:01 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-14 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-14 10:58 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-14 16:30 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-16 5:59 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-16 7:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-16 18:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-16 8:43 ` Walter Alejandro Iglesias
2010-08-06 17:32 ` Bastien
2010-08-08 16:31 ` The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Bernardo Barros
2010-08-09 10:00 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-09 10:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-09 13:50 ` The copyright issue David Kastrup
2010-08-09 15:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-09 16:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-09 22:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-09 23:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-10 1:06 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-10 2:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-10 7:53 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-06 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-06 16:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-07 7:33 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-07 19:09 ` rogers-emacs
2010-08-07 20:31 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-07 23:52 ` rogers-emacs [this message]
2010-08-09 6:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-09 8:28 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-09 9:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-10 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-11 4:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-12 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-09 10:01 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-09 11:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-09 13:06 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-09 14:28 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-09 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-09 17:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-10 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-10 8:28 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-09 20:41 ` Fren Zeee
2010-08-10 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-10 8:04 ` David Kastrup
2010-08-10 9:04 ` Andreas Röhler
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