From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mode-line size and position indicator Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:47:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83mv6o9a7m.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503629295 3525 195.159.176.226 (25 Aug 2017 02:48:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 02:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, nick@tenpoint.co.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 25 04:48:09 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 1dl4fI-0000XJ-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2017 04:48:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dl4fP-0004aq-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dl4fD-0004Xm-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dl4fC-00029j-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dl4en-0001rO-QB; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dl4en-00082W-7z; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:47:37 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Yates on Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:26:54 -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:217797 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. ]]] > After a futile effort at IBM to obtain an FSF copyright assignment I have > given up and been too lazy to restart the effort with my new employer. > Hence my .emacs (https://github.com/jsyjr/MyConfiguration.git ) is in > the public domain. If the copyright belongs to you, then you can either assign it to the FSF or put the work in the public domain. You can do either one on your own. However, if the copyright belngs to IBM, then you don't have legal authority to do either of these things. Only the copyright holder can do them. This is why we ask a contributor who is employed by software companies, or works in the software field, to get a copyright _disclaimer_ from per employer. Not an _assignment_, but a _disclaimer_. The disclaimer is a lot simpler and generally easier to get. I don't know the facts of the situation, such as whether IBM claims copyright on this work. But I suspect that if you asked for an assignment from IBM that there was a misunderstanding at work. Would you please talk with our copyright clerks to help get this situation straightened out? -- 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.