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Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:51 +0300 |
> From: Paul Rankin <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 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.
Maybe so, but then how about explaining what I missed?
>From my POV, you expressed a concern about giving up the rights for
your code, and I pointed out that by assigning you don't give up any
rights. Given that Clément pointed out the "Author" and/or "Written
by" records in the sources, what other concerns remain?
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