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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: About the CA form
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:02:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87611x4zmf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-+TQ+sc43vT3DS_-d-_nYEiLiE_hTP-i=pD+k4GxB1JEw@mail.gmail.com> (Artur Malabarba's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:51:16 +0100")

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a PDF template of the FSF's Copyright Assignment form available online?
> Maybe this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything with
> a few brief searches.
>
> If not, then is that intentional? Would it for some reason be
> undesirable for someone to publicly display an example of the CA form?
>
> I ask because I think some people might be more confortable assigning
> copyright if they could know beforehand exactly what the form states
> (at least I know it was a small concern for me).

Obviously you know exactly beforehand what the form states as you
otherwise would have a hard time signing it.

Assignments vary over time and the case in question.  There is no
obligation to sign what the FSF sends you.  If you find yourself
unwilling to agree, you can ask for those amendments you consider
important to you or just refuse.

-- 
David Kastrup



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-23 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23 10:51 About the CA form Artur Malabarba
2015-10-23 11:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-10-23 11:03 ` Jeff Clough
2015-10-23 13:03   ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-23 13:42     ` Jeff Clough
2015-10-23 14:06     ` Stephen Berman
2015-10-24  4:00 ` Richard Stallman

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