From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32593 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Display X-Face and save space Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:49:03 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <200009261349.OAA17106@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> References: <200009181427.PAA02760@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> <200009211954.UAA08323@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168854 20716 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:54:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:54:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2F9D051E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:50:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAC05045; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:49:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:49:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27979 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:49:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from djlvig.dl.ac.uk (djlvig.dl.ac.uk [148.79.112.146]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F4AD051E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:49:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from fx@localhost) by djlvig.dl.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA17106; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:49:03 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: djlvig.dl.ac.uk: fx set sender to d.love@dl.ac.uk using -f X-Face: "_!nmR@11ZNuumt0oqG"Y3Hfy|;FGz)`"ul[G?ah6k-oNyDW?3/Nq3Qab$kUnUQ_d4};kPl R=}-Vqfo|S5mThi-kaBR=>%g5a3-OvnEhdHu{^APIaP:b}0m!$bDC>SX zz'r)e?`at?tpD*+~b+pf Original-To: Wes Hardaker In-Reply-To: Wes Hardaker's message of "25 Sep 2000 09:42:05 -0700" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 31 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32593 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32593 >>>>> "WH" == Wes Hardaker writes: WH> You know, I really don't understand the copyright assignment WH> issue. I mean, if I release the code under the GPL then it WH> should satisfy the FSF. I don't speak for them, but the FSF is surely happy that you release free software. Thanks. WH> Why they need to "own" the copyright makes no sense to me. I'm not sure making sense is relevant in law. This is definitely major grief for us as maintainers, but has to be taken seriously. :-( The longstanding legal advice -- apparently not just to the FSF -- is that for defence in court against violations of the licence there should be a single copyright holder, or perhaps only a few. I'm not sure of the exact position; maybe all holders of copyright in a combined work have to be involved. In exceptional circumstances there is a specific licence to the FSF instead of assignment. By the way, the contract licenses the assigner to do as they like with their contribution, so assigning loses nothing of practical importance. It's a legal technicality. WH> Filling out the form once wouldn't prevent me from writing more WH> code in the future to the same piece and that code wouldn't be WH> owned by them (unless they explicitly cover future modifications WH> in their form). That's what it normally says.