From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: magit copyright assignments Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bk31mgue.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86frsdjm20.fsf@gnu.org> <87bk2xgh8i.fsf@jeremybryant.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="651"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jeremy Bryant Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 18 05:22:27 2024 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 1sUHir-000AQR-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:22:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUHi5-00089i-Pq; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUHi4-00089Y-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUHi3-0003pl-QC; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:35 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=/s9ul/Vmp0ck8kg/jTKV8ixVg+Q6C0QW5GvKtonpkyM=; b=g25Mvkh7MWmS Wu2TcGaxqeW6+pRQCzSUFThKwwM88tY9P/oO43yVNkFgPFDKPiynY4Z0BmRMgzlYnJG1OMECWu5QP fKVzphGvO/rtgC7N4usjzkDvvql5vyerFG/SYysALvzJ8DVsVuFlTCoUAWO329fn6IcxCb9wWCf5E jVzBJt8dKDNopp7UrpnFxHIKC4vgVfjIXly+zUiqe6v+smw4cwfG69agqtDyTkNRV5Zxq8VIPfzTm Qb8VQdaRnifEJmd3P8DVRVgRqACB/QTp9ktiWL4VRpgZMA2QGHXl6IcrheyjVhWgKdl6kGKYYuTcN OiQ2vZT0TSTKzuF3aJQPUw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUHi3-0005mF-1W; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bk2xgh8i.fsf@jeremybryant.net> (message from Jeremy Bryant on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:27:25 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:321769 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. ]]] > > For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we > > should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard > > per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is > > included in Emacs. > So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright > assignment form, which names Emacs. Would this not be sufficient? Yes and no. Since Magit is not part of Emacs, interpreting the Emacs assignment in a strict sense says it does not cover magit now. However, we aim to make magit part of Emacs. So a lawyer gave me the advice that you've quoted above, to clarify that the Emacs assignmets DO cover magit. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)