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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?
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Stephen Berman |
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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? |
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Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:40:40 +0100 |
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On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:12:12 +0100 Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:53:53 -0500 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> [[[ 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. ]]]
>>
>> > I don't know of an online resource with such details, but maybe it's
>> > somewhere in the FSF website.
>>
>> I think we should post an explanation of this.
>>
>> It appears that we don't have one on gnu.org. Would you like to check
>> fsf.org?
>
> I probably cannot make a systematic check any time soon, but if I do
> find the time, or happen to notice a relevant page by chance, I'll be
> sure to point it out.
I don't have the time to manually look through every page of the FSF
website but I did enter "assign" in the site's search form; it returned
55 hits, most of which are lists of new copyright assigners. But the
following pages have some information about what copyright assignment
means:
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/index_html
FSF Licensing & Compliance Team
by Joshua Gay — published Mar 13, 2013 — last modified Aug 11, 2017 03:13 PM
[...]
Copyright & Compliance
The Free Software Foundation holds the copyright to many GNU packages,
such as GCC and EMACS. When hackers contribute to these projects, we
ask that they assign their copyright to enable us to enforce the
license. For questions about assigning to the FSF, please contact us at
address@hidden
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/assigning-copyright
When a company asks for your copyright
by Richard Stallman — published Sep 29, 2010 — last modified Nov 05, 2010
09:46 AM
[...]
The company will probably invite you to assign or license your
copyright to the company. That in itself is not inherently bad; for
instance, many GNU software developers have assigned copyrights to the
FSF. However, the FSF never sells exceptions, and its assignment
contracts include a commitment to distribute the contributor's code
only with source and only permitting redistribution.
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/assignunisrule.html
Assignment University
by jacobson — published Sep 19, 2006 — last modified Jul 29, 2013 02:55 PM
[...]
Although the FSF does not require the assignment of copyright on new
GNU project programs, on existing programs where it already holds
copyright, the FSF does collect assignments and register copyrights.
[...]
some reasons why a university might like to assign copyright to the FSF:
-> University assignment of code allows the university freedom from the
burden of protecting the work created by the developers at the
university. The FSF accepts copyright so that it can do its enforcement
work.
[...]
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/20050325novalis.html
The Basics
by novalis — published Mar 25, 2005 — last modified Mar 12, 2010 10:06 AM
[...]
5. You can also assign your copyright. By way of analogy, licensing
software to someone is like inviting them to visit your house;
assigning copyright to someone is like selling them your house.
a. You might want to assign your copyright to someone else if they
promise to do the work of enforcing the license, or they otherwise
won't take your patches.
Steve Berman
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), (continued)
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Richard Stallman, 2018/02/05
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Richard Stallman, 2018/02/05
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Sam Steingold, 2018/02/06
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stephen Berman, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/03
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?,
Stephen Berman <=
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/03
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/05
- Finding an online resource for the agreement (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), George Plymale II, 2018/02/05
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stefan Monnier, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/14