Re: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 31.03.2013 20:57, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:57:25 +0200
> > From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> >
> > please consider the case at stake: a great library like psgml.el, which 
> > delivered solutions hardly
> > found elsewhere, was kept nearly unknown for more than a decade.
> >
> > Don't you accept there is a difference between not bundling code and not 
> > mentioning it?
> > Not to say: discourage it's use.
> >
> > If you might consider the effect already visible in this thread, you will 
> > remark the notion of the explicit consentement of authors for a change or 
> > republishing as so
> > called matter of respect.
> >
> > Don't you see the danger which raises for all free software from  there?
> > All legal tracts and stances are interpreted in the light of habit.
> > If a court notices the habit of requesting personal consentements for otherwise 
> > GPLed code changes as a need,
> > the story of free software might be over.
>
> It doesn't matter what I think on this matter.  I'm saying that
> attacking the FSF on one of the technical GNU forums is rude and
> unethical.

When pointing at some probably wrong decision, there is no attack at the FSF.
IMO FSF does a great job with its anti-DRM and many other campaigns.

As IPython got the FSF Free Software Award some days ago: Does the 
IPython-project require copyright assigments? Never heard from.
So that policy seems not so closely linked to FSF as you assume. It's just a 
decision effecting Emacs development and usage.

>  There are specialized forums for this kind of discussions,
> please take this subject there.