From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87r4irejcw.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9iwcp.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9fiu0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d2v4f5bb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r4jjp2d2.fsf@yandex.ru> <8738vagciq.fsf@gmail.com> <87a9pgayzy.fsf@gmail.com> <87bo9wyr74.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87y5d0m3l3.fsf@gmail.com> <87txnovwne.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87k3okm2eb.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365002140 13844 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2013 15:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:15:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 03 17:16:08 2013 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 1UNPQ0-0005Qg-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:16:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPb-0000x3-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPS-0000pq-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPM-0007Ik-9k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51535) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPM-0007IN-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPj-0005Dm-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:15:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 72.185.97.240 ([72.185.97.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:15:51 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 72.185.97.240 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:15:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.185.97.240 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LFfBdyM5/mut/tj0s04t3FxET4g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:158592 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > Bastien writes: > >> Jambunathan K writes: >> >>> Question is about my changes to ox-html.el and ox-odt.el. What is your >>> answer? I haven't got an actionable answer. >> >> These are changes against Emacs for which you signed a copyright >> assignement that you cannot retroactively retract. > > There was no assignment in the first place. So question of retraction > doesn't arise at all. If there was no copyright assignment, why would they ever have used your code?