From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19549.44879.848292.639521@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19549.49818.270000.981978@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19549.61887.613440.141458@rgr.rgrjr.com> <8762zkl259.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87aaow8a0p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y6cgjg45.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281448721 21976 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2010 13:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 10 15:58:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OipLg-0004uW-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:58:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OipLg-0003mi-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40503 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OipLb-0003md-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OipLa-0007Uy-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47273) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OipLZ-0007Ut-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OipLX-0000Xl-RW; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <87y6cgjg45.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128545 Archived-At: Nope. It makes him liable to be sued by the FSF for legal expenses, and maybe the cost of ripping out the code, if the FSF *loses* (or maybe, if it determines in good faith that it's going to lose and settles out of court). I can't see why we would ever want to sue a contributor even if he had lied to us about he origin of the code. We would simply take it out. However, the assignments encourage users to think about the question, making it much less likely that we will have any problem.