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Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
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Paul Rankin |
Subject: |
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:01:48 +1000 |
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, at 11:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think you might misunderstand the nature and the essence of the
> copyright assignment: it doesn't in any way diminish the author's
> rights on his/her code. Here's a direct citation from
>
> https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignment-at-the-fsf
>
> Sometimes contributors are concerned about giving up rights to their
> work. As the assignment is a gift to the free software community,
> they don't want it to come at the expense of having flexibility in
> the use of their own code. Thus, we grant back to contributors a
> license to use their work as they see fit. This means they are free
> to modify, share, and sublicense their own work under terms of their
> choice. This enables contributors to redistribute their work under
> another free software license. While this technically also permits
> distributing their work under a proprietary license, we hope they
> won't.
>
> I can confirm that every one of my assignments I got back signed by
> the FSF includes a specific clause about the above rights granted back
> to me.
Eli you've missed the point completely.
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, (continued)
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Paul Rankin, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads,
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Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Paul Rankin, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Paul Rankin, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Paul Rankin, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Nikolaus Rath, 2017/07/21
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, John Wiegley, 2017/07/20
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Stephen Berman, 2017/07/20