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From: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 22:34:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d92c95ce-e898-a6cd-8143-de46ae689575@abou-samra.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu4ghfk7.fsf@inria.fr>



Le 06/10/2022 à 22:18, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> Hello Guilers!
>
> Until now, we required copyright for “legally significant¹”
> contributions to Guile to be assigned to the Free Software Foundation
> (FSF).  This requirement did not exist for code not initially written
> for Guile—e.g., (ice-9 match), sxml-match, etc.  The purported advantage
> of copyright assignment is described at
> <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html>.
>
> 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
> GCC², 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
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/>,
> 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—contributors who choose this
> 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 “legally significant” way³.
>
> 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’ & Andy.
>
> ¹ https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant
> ² https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-June/236182.html
> ³ https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices



This is very good news!

When I did this copyright assignment for Emacs, I recall
that the procedure was a bit demotivating (the person
was very friendly, but when you live in an isolated area
and don't have a printer and you must print the document
to sign it ...).

Thanks a lot for doing this.

Jean




  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-06 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-06 20:18 Relaxing the copyright assignment policy Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-06 20:34 ` Jean Abou Samra [this message]
2022-10-06 20:59   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-10-06 20:45 ` Thompson, David
2022-10-07  9:58 ` Maxime Devos
2022-10-07 12:05   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-08 14:07 ` Jean Abou Samra
2022-10-29  5:44 ` Ian Kelling
2022-10-29  6:39   ` Ian Kelling

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