From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44608 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes) Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 19:48:10 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wuum1lwl.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <87adrjse42.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <87wuunyrl4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87u1pqbsl3.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <87bsby4oy8.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87lmb2336u.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87662631te.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020361784 1212 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 17:49:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 173Ki8-0000JR-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 19:49:44 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 173KhY-0005hh-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 12:49:08 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 02 May 2002 12:49:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA16797 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:49:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4830 invoked by alias); 2 May 2002 17:48:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4824 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 17:48:29 -0000 Original-Received: from cygnus-ext.enyo.de (HELO mail.enyo.de) (212.9.189.162) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 May 2002 17:48:29 -0000 Original-Received: from [212.9.189.171] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 173Kgh-0004SV-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 19:48:15 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 3.34 #4) id 173Kgc-0000Wb-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 19:48:10 +0200 -Draft-From: ("nnml:lists.ding" 21613) Original-To: Dmitry Bely Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Bely , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Bely's message of "Thu, 02 May 2002 21:37:35 +0400") Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44608 Dmitry Bely writes: >>> Ahh... I did not noticed that it has University Of Stuttgart copyright. But >>> why this is so bad? Anyway it's GPL'ed so I see no problem here. They are >>> going to sell it under different license? Good luck! :-) >> >> I wrote gpg.el in order to have something which could be integrated >> into GnuPG or GNU Emacs some day. Back then, I was told that the >> university wouldn't oppose assigning the copyright... > > Probably this is a bit of offtipic, but could you explain me why > transfering the copyright to FSF is necessary? Why some GPL'ed sources, > those copyright is holded by somebody else, cannot be supplied with Gnus? That's official FSF policy we cannot change. > What you are afraid of? The copyright owner might claim that it never released the source under the GPL, and try to extract royalties or damages from the FSF. A valid assignment contract makes this extremely unlikely, but without such a contract, you are in the mercy of the copyright owner to some extent.