From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Licensing Question Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:36:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87wp0y3trx.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87a7xxw81q.fsf@Polaris.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX1io-0005Pp-Bw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:21:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX1il-0002KD-6V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:21:58 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX1ik-0002IF-T2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:21:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <87a7xxw81q.fsf@Polaris.localdomain> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Charlie Sale Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Charlie, > Do I need to submit a FSF copyright assignment to contribute to a package if > the package is not copyrighted under the FSF? Guix does not require FSF copyright assignment. Contributing a package definition to Guix is not the same as contributing to the upstream project providing the software that we build. Take Emacs, for example, a project requiring copyright assignment. Providing a package definition for Emacs to Guix does not contribute to the Emacs project, so no copyright assignment is required. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net