From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:37:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83tuepgr7o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k0fn8od1.fsf@gnus.org> <83y242ip0a.fsf@gnu.org> <875yr5lsdg.fsf@thornhill.no> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29918"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, akira@akirakyle.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Theodor Thornhill Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 08:43:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n3CZ1-0007bT-Dj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:42:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3CYz-00037b-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 02:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3CTu-0000iu-FG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 02:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=42836 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3CTt-0003Tr-7A; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 02:37:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=c96MICs6MBzL1reOZRDC7WNvARG5AY+74ipwdX7yWhs=; b=ropZj+c2Hi2m 3jzlShdekMQVbXNpqUmtbOCYsQYqMRIDSwVepRgfPKWaiewZT6z7Jmj5FwQbVG6HL9a0DwO/iThfX Kb/cEAq1BBgt5fNzMlGaRCd+ysdDrawRj4OotzZT9A3+aJGlx75Z0ZMesVE25FNAgWq4AoLqa/qXp lBYC5yTEoN3kLW6RxX2cclzLYA8IZJyIV1vYqKBK4NzN7ynJfBDodFcRIz4CmLJubnsXAuActZ8UR W3lAJZrMhEMMR23RiqCDyegyy9ET0PLwq8ljMp1yAh/6G6nBW/YzmIxTm5Kmx/OvZ2eQLl5/fio3A vw0tC5aeQfScmSDQwC+Vbg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1442 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3CTc-00040Z-Qa; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 02:37:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <875yr5lsdg.fsf@thornhill.no> (message from Theodor Thornhill on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:01:15 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283720 Archived-At: > From: Theodor Thornhill > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Richard Stallman , > Emacs developers > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:01:15 +0100 > > One other thing noone seems to mention is that when you change jobs, you > have to do it all over again. It's mentioned frequently enough, don't worry. What's also mentioned is that you could negotiate a contract which says software you write on your free time is not the property of the employer, at least under some reasonable conditions, and then you don't need to ask them for any legal paperwork when you contribute to Emacs. And before you say that this is only a theoretical possibility: I'm one person with such a contract (well, was, before I retired).