From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25b4532b-b2db-e813-7c4c-ee75770e98d6@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87b29866-51a6-05b5-c08f-94201bce3d89@online.de>
Andreas Röhler wrote:
> What would stop FSF to assist defending the authors rights?
The FSF would not have standing. The authors would, but might not be available.
>> If you have assigned copyright to FSF, then FSF can sue that violator
>> and have a probability of winning and forcing them to either publish
>> their improvements under GPL, or stop distributing their derived work.
>
>
> Could you point me at some example?
http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-05-cisco-settlement.html
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2017-07-13 17:16 ` Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-13 18:06 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:25 ` John Yates
2017-07-13 18:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:36 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 18:48 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:08 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 19:11 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-13 19:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-14 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-13 19:23 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:31 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-13 19:56 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 20:07 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-14 10:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-14 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-18 6:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 7:53 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-07-18 17:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-19 9:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-19 11:56 ` tomas
2017-07-19 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
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