From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Review a blog post about emacs-devel
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 09:52:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2pt3d1d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <055C009E-FE43-4FB5-999F-14F15A48DAD5@gmail.com> (message from Yuan Fu on Thu, 14 May 2020 22:57:58 -0400)
> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 22:57:58 -0400
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> I think couple days ago someone (Joao?) read the copyright assignment and said FSF shares the copyright
> with the assignee, is that right? If so I should change the “give” in “By signing the assignment, you give the
> copyright of your code to FSF.” to “share”.
I don't think "share" quite catches this, but IANAL.
Why do you need to include these details in a blog about Emacs?
> Also, does that mean the assignee can change the license to public domain?
Yes, but only for the version the assignee him/herself distributes,
not for the code contributed to Emacs. AFAIU, at least.
In effect, AFAIU, the agreement splits the code into 2 separate
versions: one is distributed by Emacs under GPL, the other could be
distributed by the author under any license the author choses,
including a non-free one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 20:58 Review a blog post about emacs-devel Yuan Fu
2020-04-27 21:31 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-27 21:37 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-29 6:33 ` Colin Baxter
2020-04-29 6:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 14:08 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-29 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 16:14 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-30 2:28 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30 15:19 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-30 16:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-30 15:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-30 16:26 ` 조성빈
2020-04-30 16:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 18:58 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-05 7:56 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-07 19:40 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 2:57 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 5:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-15 16:22 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-15 16:20 ` Yuan Fu
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