Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[João Távora]

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:35 PM Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>    > Finally, above practical aspects, assigning copyright is declaring
>    > support for an idea larger than the FSF itself.  It's a political
>    > declaration.
>    Could someone officially confirm or deny the above paragraph?
> It is very much false.  By assigning your copyright to the FSF you do
> just that and nothing else, it says nothing about what values you hold
> or wish to endorse.

I don't resist asking: does relinquishing copyright of a work to
the "Free Software Foundation" a "nonprofit with a worldwide
mission to promote computer user freedom" really say nothing
about what values one wishes to endorse?

Maybe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm happy to clarify that it did, _for me_, and
that's how I meant it.  No idea why others did or didn't do that.

João Távora