From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible for a 14 year old in the UK to be able to contribute to Emacs? Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:20:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3stghkk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426252853 11958 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2015 13:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Zack Piper Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 13 14:20:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YWPWC-0003sA-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:20:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWPWB-0003Cx-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWPVl-0003Cf-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWPVh-0002Eo-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from albireo.enyo.de ([46.237.207.196]:36392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWPVg-0002Av-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.17.203.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by albireo.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) id 1YWPVb-0004xb-G0; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:20:11 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YWPVb-0003Wg-4w; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:20:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> (Zack Piper's message of "Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:12:14 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 46.237.207.196 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183846 Archived-At: * Zack Piper: > - Is there an age limit? I don't know the situation in the UK, but in Germany, minors are not allowed to enter certain types of contracts unless they have permission from the guardianship court (parental consent is not enough). The FSF copyright assignment has an indemnification clause with potentially unbounded liability, and I would expect that such contracts are not valid without such court approval. (The idea is that once you start adult life, you are not burdened by liabilities your parents have accumulated in your name, as your guardians.) There is a related question, whether a minor can release his or her own work under a free license (while retaining copyright ownership), without the right to revoke the license grant when reaching adulthood.