Am 03.04.2013 10:29, schrieb Bastien:
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
CA, as we learned, is partly privately negotiated.
Not to my knowledge.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-04/msg00066.html
BTW experienced that proceeding already years ago, which is just polite
and correct as such.
The copyright assignment is signed by contributors. I'm not aware of
any negociations, and I'd be surprised to learn that there are private
negociations.
To evaluate the legal state of different parts in Emacs wrt CA will
need one or more lawyers.
This suggests that the copyright status of Emacs is uncertain.
Law and legal stats differ in theory and reality.
In theory more laws define more cases and should provide more security.
In reality the realm of possible interpretation is expanded too.
I hope you understand it is quite a serious statement and requires
some evidence.
The copyright status for code in Org's code is very clear, and I think
this is also the case for the copyright status of the rest of Emacs.
I sometimes get impatient when I have to wait for the FSF Copyright
Clerk to handle new copyright assignments for a new contributor, but
I know he has a lot of work and he's doing a great job.
To know the copyright status as such --as assignments may differ-- you
must read assignment by assignment, evaluate and understand the diffs
correctly -
which is absurd as IMHO the whole CA arts.
BTW German law --Urheberrechtsgesetz-- for example declares non-valid
such copyright assignments - even if signed.
Will a US-court accept CA from a German, when german law declares CA
possible?