From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:15:29 +0300 Message-ID: <92adf498-4d85-ae74-90ed-c912e50af626@yandex.ru> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499977027 31786 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2017 20:17:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:17:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/54.0 Cc: Emacs developers To: Yuri Khan , Filipe Silva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 13 22:17:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkXf-0007cy-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkXj-0000qI-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkWR-0000lw-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkWN-0000zA-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wr0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::236]:36169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVkWN-0000x9-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wr0-x236.google.com with SMTP id y28so6493899wrd.3 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:15:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XlT8W4Rc4fqmqgcoLC4oA/rAT4PjkLUyeHRbVCmpYNM=; b=NJsrSTGQ/tskVNebHY409z/WyoHy7SjNTWrQRcB3WbsdfUGsv4WgJYzGottC/7swC6 mUrg8XjumQlEYzCtB33Oq23ZKpyg+5zJG6kIuBvfhb3njCVCh2wyWAyWZ0XkAWSNWgI7 cb1e6Y3S/kj7XjgXNS/bb4nKhijEf7kFGM8LTR+bCvjJ1S9fb47Caoz1h1N1RCPATc5F jTCKfvNKdphyot5QrRsz94fCEyvTUQUF2MCEKUNyL235YC3koiIcrLBSwLW6SxLlGKAz k+EPqgnF9741hrnDzEvzUHK/CPiiZ3qe/BOdw/Hn6HD7HC6ua5kKJ8CN3RAI3KpKP8FT aYyw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XlT8W4Rc4fqmqgcoLC4oA/rAT4PjkLUyeHRbVCmpYNM=; b=npL5Cq+wX2G4AyXhMNjio5Ao7uYXDJXSzQQngBZL4Lf4fXe907UFqB+At/L5rfdSXS +jDQ3tSpXSHMd0nQV5FbRJkjzn1AZDfJHYU3/EaEmwwjnhjLEDA/uwSXfyw3bzfP68wZ hlkXVZVYIzHKwCd2zUg5nLJbhxc8FAKIgd0G8LcUHPtyiwnRRgd3LW4zonrz2yGaQA7I 3AVSAEyNaZRTXm3XIvtVnLa4P647+2YQTQ0UXLGSa9yRnjp16WyaUeQWQ+QCNqgZhU4F 1PMvNXP3HIJyqFQDHN+0ykWWL1kGuJTPioxCHcd4W2J8y7+PlHcetDjoLQtPRcQxW2XP A2WA== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw111/KmWigk3CZslZPoDcBVaGOzs27anrb49UT+WE5SviCj5ZnQ1Y 543ZP6ttz2qDkGBkmzY= X-Received: by 10.223.143.77 with SMTP id p71mr2547313wrb.3.1499976932221; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([185.105.174.193]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id i32sm9368688wra.5.2017.07.13.13.15.30 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:15:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216615 Archived-At: On 7/13/17 10:12 PM, Yuri Khan wrote: > One specific case is if you yourself go evil and decide to stop > distributing your package freely and make it non-free. As a copyright > holder, you legally can do that. If I'm the copyright owner, and I decide to release the next version as proprietary, I'm of course able to do that. That shouldn't stop FSF from distributing the previous version of the software, though, because it's been released under a Free Software license already. So protecting against this scenario doesn't seem necessary. Also IANAL.