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: M-x send-emacs-patch Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 14:36:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pot2zoy0.fsf@gnus.org> <874macho0m.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87oa8kzne5.fsf@gnus.org> <572BAE77.4080105@gmail.com> <572BB50C.5050406@gmail.com> <572BBD30.9070001@gmail.com> <572BBFA1.6010306@gmail.com> <572CF9EA.4030303@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462646202 579 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2016 18:36:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 18:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rcopley@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 20:36:33 2016 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 1az75b-0005PK-UK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 20:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az75b-0004ce-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az75X-0004Vt-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az75U-0007LQ-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az75R-0007Kn-MY; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1az75P-0005HD-OH; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:36:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <572CF9EA.4030303@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9?= =?utf-8?Q?ment?= Pit--Claudel on Fri, 6 May 2016 16:09:14 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:203675 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > If you put the program in the public domain, we prefer to have a signed > > piece of paper--a disclaimer of rights--from you confirming this. If the > > program is not very important, we can do without one; the worst that could > > happen is that we might some day be forced to stop using it. The case of a separate program and the case of a contribution to Emacs are different. When people contribute a new GNU package, we don't ask for any legal papers unless they want the FSF to enforce the GPL for it. Emacs already is an FSF-copyrighted GNU package. We could consider accepting a change without legal papers, but it would be an exception. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.