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: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:02:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bk31mgue.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86frsdjm20.fsf@gnu.org> <87bk2xgh8i.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <874j8mdcht.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86a5ieg1jb.fsf@gnu.org> <87v812bq0k.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <864j8mfvju.fsf@gnu.org> 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="33151"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 05:02:47 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 1sVMqV-0008U5-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 05:02:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVMq9-0003kT-J4; Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:02:25 -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 1sVMq7-0003jJ-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:02:23 -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 1sVMq7-0003XL-Gn; Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:02:23 -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=zKCzKuF1bMtxcZMu9f+yv0L6tBrQhnNi5Axja7Jsk/8=; b=bi73+IrndaH4 sAvbZne905Ef7EyxBizU71IPYKsW8FCbakRj+M+6SIZF/wXEU4k+nnAPrPWZ0dtU4FJGcJFrdfJlj ahcWIHPRMt+HjgByMrQQO0Igit2rVTa6v+dZD4uJfLcKAabRJtKqt807lbyUipE/pEdIQh/RW3XZa PhsnJXld71ymR4XvzIJAovVt9QG5gOTEFj6poyUwDBN8J9zfQ7gsaMPDZEXfbz8amMdtqH2bKAafT uSIBgDa9MNg54DW3xt6+24maWXDkANsCJb3BgWu4LmbAtn7UMmqVseqD2hGqhoNbJk/zbB9Bky1hr xeItjlYpgCPCbFpUR/8j9Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVMq7-0003Dw-6X; Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:02:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <864j8mfvju.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:40:21 +0300) 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:321849 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 this is for us, then how is it different from just asking whether > they contribute the package? The assignment form is a form because the > FSF assignment clerk needs to collect specific information, but here > no specific information is needed, just an informal agreement. One obvious difference is that in this case we already do have an assignment contract, and the question is presisely what "contributios to Emacs" covers. ISTR that the lawyer considered an simple statement, that we had a record of, to be sufficient. -- 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)