Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[Philippe Vaucher]

> 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?

For me (and I suspect others) it was like this: I see something I'd
like to change in Emacs and I want to contribute. I take the time to
write a patch and I want to send, then I'm told I cannot send it until
I sign these papers. This annoys me, the papers looks pretty
fear-based and everywhere else open source I just send a patch and I'm
done. Those other open source entities don't seem to have legal
problems. Also it's not just something where I sign online and click
and I'm done, I have to print, sign, scan and send by email. This
delay my patch sending several months until finally my thirst of
wanting this patch in is too strong and I bother with the assignments.