From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Review a blog post about emacs-devel Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 09:52:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2pt3d1d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2D56B465-C028-41AE-8D07-38C1C49FF5F7@gmail.com> <1AACFB17-AA77-4F74-A0D6-8CB50902A278@gmail.com> <6D8F18E1-1514-4C18-B04F-13894115F507@gmail.com> <055C009E-FE43-4FB5-999F-14F15A48DAD5@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="27666"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuan Fu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 15 08:53:36 2020 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 1jZUDw-000763-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 08:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49958 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZUDv-0004Hx-JQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 02:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZUDS-0003eo-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 02:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZUDR-0000OL-N1; Fri, 15 May 2020 02:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1124 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZUDK-0001Mu-Ia; Fri, 15 May 2020 02:53:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <055C009E-FE43-4FB5-999F-14F15A48DAD5@gmail.com> (message from Yuan Fu on Thu, 14 May 2020 22:57:58 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:250354 Archived-At: > From: Yuan Fu > Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 22:57:58 -0400 > Cc: Emacs developers > > 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.