From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Philippe Vaucher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 18:41:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="96018"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Yuan Fu , Richard Stallman , Eric Abrahamsen , Emacs developers , Stefan Monnier , ndame@protonmail.com, Phillip Lord To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 18:43:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jX65g-000OqN-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 18:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37140 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX65f-0004oT-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 12:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX64r-0003Ys-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 12:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lf1-x136.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::136]:44839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX64r-0003GI-28; Fri, 08 May 2020 12:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lf1-x136.google.com with SMTP id d25so1910361lfi.11; Fri, 08 May 2020 09:42:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=Mx8Vs3RifRCjkZswFyrXVbwhRlxm0oMGxRx+S4au+wc=; b=NGr69za5KRs6zfghOmsaprvQaK1ik9lWFZKxYr6ouu1RlxExVCCmObVmwz4c95TKoo 4fQl1qEFoHlUyrwMgAMdpQfnGVVpdhtDcae0hy9xeniC9awy6Ad9WrA87uSKL1uveqUw 8gc5RB97dX4DGZ/D9FyPcjwPghB4wUbF1oIQeUuuhEpSFxxg3RaiO+Qs/yy0LsP5bVsm oMrnO835gVYt7UdP2rvDu6vMd35opyP8NqagJs2La52VieM0avy3ui0kIK4M3ZAZKIqE NFFOW9hZRpunXTfp5cEfj4mBU/gtgqKSS+NG8FXNv+rdly2SyxDIZcUnb65JYjwUFLm6 NChQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Mx8Vs3RifRCjkZswFyrXVbwhRlxm0oMGxRx+S4au+wc=; b=W3kPrGk6xl0Hva1gvrVYL8DthB8q8bu9D8tbKjJkDULD4Btzo2Dx99GeOW5PBnCE0e S4rlUCBPIl0ifZWXF0X+Qusu783k0ocSQqpzWtm8Kv0+fsql0gG+T0AWIu90y21AstL+ c+JycofAKY6nyhf3A5gMZXlJpo1sHb6g2QEuvYa5hapHvmhTR3pRTz54w97wHi2hJCX3 zj4LJVPyy8u8FlQmhdSo5chc2UXjmtYobEA1TuXrCjSagFIRSbVexkRe7nucWmr151iY USmBzTzKXHRGmoX3mC7CnWC+3XEaGOpNy9sjV0ki23RyquFA6HwcnXeBNha6s+KQDEj+ 8TJA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532cschG8yAOGZsW1S1Q0lQh9NrJC9BB4RsnuNNkvNWbgoFSKH/i H4KWRt0DEaMaiuphyla20sN2bDjgyKALA76ukU8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzU7TWHhEBTP9NZQpymdfC3ZJfFMqFFmNaogLfTnL5dDkuKupeSMp2Tue8pC9QhHe6ZY+6hfNaRVNdglO+oZNM= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6512:455:: with SMTP id y21mr2593766lfk.202.1588956138829; Fri, 08 May 2020 09:42:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::136; envelope-from=philippe.vaucher@gmail.com; helo=mail-lf1-x136.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249297 Archived-At: > Now, this is very interesting. And it points to a solution: > > 1. Allow contributions without assignments. > > 2. Actively encourage every contributor to sign the assignment. > > This is a very conservative compromise that ensures that we can both > enforce the GPL effectively, _and_ ensure that Emacs prospers. FWIW I completely agree.