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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
From: |
João Távora |
Subject: |
Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 9 May 2020 15:21:51 +0100 |
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:17 PM Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Those are the values the FSF promotes, not the person assigning their
> copyright to the FSF. They also do not "relinquishing" their rights;
> after signing a copyright assignment you still can use the code you
> wrote as you see fit, even license it under a non-free license.
I'm not a lawyer. It would seem from my layman's standpoint that
I performed a voluntary action that helped some other entity in
the world. I could have chosen not to, but I didn't, and that matters.
João
PS: it also says the FSF owes me a dollar! Where is it? :-)
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs,
João Távora <=
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, 조성빈, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/10