From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:18:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87tu4ghfk7.fsf@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24970"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Andy Wingo To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 22:27:25 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1ogXSm-0006Jt-Sk for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:27:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55322 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXSl-0005yM-VA for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXJq-0004ta-55 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXJo-0003OP-KC; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:18:08 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:Subject:To:From:in-reply-to: references; bh=wALRxvwhPErwhXM+7wZxIafq9aDcb2yJ9zYLk/1pwCI=; b=oljOw+H2YoY+Gn 4VUUSkr6FB/oEVEBg/+uFVMUNriJ6Uz+CK6m4iLZtpc7XydxFF7UGUdvkfr2SxZk3SihNkNfQPOCv iGJcAR6lUy/On3gmt01MaoPERW81Ho2GQ5VBKFxlZKykCjysF71xDsvEFfKU+hh6LGXMFX63nzclW /fGTD2Q7kfH578gHogE0xGLLPVn3eZI1h/kde7kh6ImNv8ZdAlC08dXaNfvmIn5xrVXJe99AirvMY /1xSh7TtouxiIHSlwKd50FgTfQb8U39UFlD4Mg9FPXzFAtmmFYtUTfzdfvv8g8AeNOjGc0KJCBcrb fm77nYQIG9FIv7Z7kIuw==; Original-Received: from 91-160-117-201.subs.proxad.net ([91.160.117.201]:60550 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXJo-0002bC-66; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:18:08 -0400 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: Quintidi 15 =?utf-8?Q?Vend=C3=A9miaire?= an 231 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution=2C?= jour de =?utf-8?Q?l'=C3=82ne?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:21385 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Guilers! Until now, we required copyright for =E2=80=9Clegally significant=C2=B9=E2= =80=9D contributions to Guile to be assigned to the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This requirement did not exist for code not initially written for Guile=E2=80=94e.g., (ice-9 match), sxml-match, etc. The purported adva= ntage of copyright assignment is described at . Your unreachable-but-nonetheless-friendly co-maintainers, Andy Wingo and myself, came to the conclusion that the cost/benefit ratio of mandatory copyright assignment is not good for Guile. Like other projects such as GCC=C2=B2, we have decided to relax that policy. Nothing changes for contributors who have already assigned copyright on future changes to Guile to the FSF. New contributors are encouraged to assign copyright to the FSF by emailing them one of the forms at , especially if they intend to contribute significantly going forward. New contributors may instead choose to not assign copyright to the FSF. In that case, copyright on the new code is held by the contributor themself or, possibly, by their employer=E2=80=94contributors who choose th= is option are expected to clarify which of these two applies to their situation. A copyright line for the new copyright holder is added to files modified in a =E2=80=9Clegally significant=E2=80=9D way=C2=B3. Guile remains under the same license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later version; contributions are expected under the same terms. We hope this to be one of the changes that will make it easier to contribute to Guile. Let us know if you have any questions, and enjoy the good hack! Ludo=E2=80=99 & Andy. =C2=B9 https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant =C2=B2 https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-June/236182.html =C2=B3 https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJBBAEBCgArFiEEPORkVYqE/cadtAz7CQsRmT2a67UFAmM/N/gNHGx1ZG9AZ251 Lm9yZwAKCRAJCxGZPZrrtVf5D/49PPLIp1QZXH8JS6QF/kXQ0c/uvsdv9/qCx2aV sHuM526REU3eDVOb75woOlrUaGIOW9/B3djGo/fU1S9oy7EFSg6S6QHeubFETp5Q sd4afSc88eK3BqePcOjeTRIHkusdPyDzkmdR9BLZeveLlh3nGzg60NrjXaqvUKkd rsIhi72Kb1lNVXAAcBev4+wUgyvzhwi6UtfW+e4IXczJRyFOdeOLzioZY3D83FvG kcH2d8hy8bGBzauvblY8E9qW8GtftuO3lb9bUiRe9p3lkRjYHib0s254U0GWjpIA mCpZKF0gwuEKG+1Ex8XclaixOO3xPIsv888g7tKQhz+hDgA2jy4QFlG8gksHAqB1 XDtXKgR9qjMpzajEXR/lx2L2kwRZd5DmX/MGd72QfviIeY1wX6nhMw6Ftx5OTZ2I HZrfWFi9DkURKinj4yY4U3VczMiKeqYNUax41cMSINww+qNVNGp5RF8mbpVU5mtH 7kDpi8CD2+waYdeTw1ZAOfTmjm3ABxDpOUb690lpWYNCsUeOwbFtabhaXlqjtKSx dr0FPdcto8tZpZyEnZArZNPwM+eBoflLHIjEM5KuMQyuJExGJuLdCd0Wrp8a0sXa pjH8wYYQv2BTCkQtYZ1uRNJafsXhYj2JvYDEg57e5t5XvdSAAkIxbUiZvBgoH0aY Jjv3kw== =pfT/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--