From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:52:31 -0400 Message-ID: <19549.61887.613440.141458@rgr.rgrjr.com> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19549.44879.848292.639521@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19549.49818.270000.981978@gargle.gargle.HOWL> 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 1281290589 2332 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 18:03:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 08 20:03:07 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 1OiADC-0002c8-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiADC-0000LJ-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51319 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oi9Ka-0002HZ-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhtC1-0001Kd-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rgrjr.com ([216.146.47.5]:57208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhtC0-0001Jn-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rgrjr.dyndns.org (c-66-30-196-77.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.30.196.77]) by rgrjr.com (Postfix on CentOS) with ESMTP id C9A611601EE for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 23:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 5139 invoked by uid 89); 7 Aug 2010 23:52:33 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO rgr.rgrjr.com) (192.168.57.1) by home with SMTP; 7 Aug 2010 23:52:33 -0000 Original-Received: by rgr.rgrjr.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id DF388484F0; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:52:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <19549.49818.270000.981978@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM viewmail-600 under 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128420 Archived-At: From: Uday S Reddy 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