From: Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
"John Yates" <john@yates-sheets.org>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:48:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwkUWMGU7Wgki6-w63kA63mt5Cwyj-FOheKQ6ss5iStHy7O4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shi0xjzf.fsf@kwork>
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Ok. I get that. But why, why it is legally required? What harm will descent
upon us all if an official component of emacs is distributed which hasn't
had it's copyright assigned to FSF?
On Jul 13, 2017 15:37, "Karl Fogel" <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org> writes:
> >Perhaps you should ask why Richard decided that Magit, among all
> >of the many non-FSF copyright assigned packages that emacs users
> >recommend to one another, was so intolerable as to justify suggesting
> >mounting a - to my mind doomed - competing project. It was not as if
> >all of those recommendations are for some proprietary or non-GPL-V3+
> >package.
>
> Richard didn't do anything special in this case. He's fine with Magit
> being distributed as free software, and fine with Emacs users downloading
> and using Magit. People are still free to "recommend [Magit] to one
> another", just as with any free software.
>
> The copyright assignment thing is solely about Magit being distributed *as
> an official component of the GNU Emacs distribution*. All the packages
> that are part of Emacs itself have always needed these copyright
> assignments. I'm not commenting on whether this is legally necessary or
> not. I'm just saying that the request here is exactly the same as the FSF
> has always made for every other package that would be distributed as part
> of Emacs. Magit did not get singled out for special treatment.
>
> -K
>
>
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2017-07-13 17:16 ` Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-13 18:06 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:25 ` John Yates
2017-07-13 18:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:36 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 18:48 ` Filipe Silva [this message]
2017-07-13 19:08 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 19:11 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-13 19:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-14 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-13 19:23 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:31 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-13 19:56 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 20:07 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-14 10:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-14 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-18 6:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 7:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-18 17:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-19 9:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-19 11:56 ` tomas
2017-07-19 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
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