Dave Love wrote:
Andreas Roehler andreas.roeh...@online.de writes:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
For this audience, I'll restate my position, vis-à-vis python-mode.
I assert that Tim Peters and myself have assigned copyright in
python-mode.el to the FSF.
For this audience, again: Unfortunately
Andreas wrote:
IMO assignment policy contradicts the spirit of free software.
It shows very unpleasant damages in mind
already. Copyright is an important issue now, taken
very seriously. Before code was exchanged freely, as
Richard told nicely the very beginnings of the
movement. Meanwhile we
On 02/01/2009 06:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Andreas Roehler writes:
IMO assignment policy contradicts the spirit of free software.
Please, Andreas, drop this thread. You are not going to change
anyone's mind.
Here's why:
Copyright is an important issue now, taken very
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:08 AM, Andreas Roehler wrote:
as FSF assignment policy was raised again at
python-mode@python.org, please permit to ask you a
thing I never understood:
AFAIS every Emacs-file is inspired by many, many others
from the very beginning. We see almost
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On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:08 AM, Andreas Roehler wrote:
as FSF assignment policy was raised again at
python-mode@python.org, please permit to ask you a
thing I never understood:
AFAIS every Emacs-file is inspired by many, many others
from the very
I am not a lawyer, and I don't speak for the FSF or the Emacs Project.
I do speak for the XEmacs Project until such time as someone feels
like complaining about it. :-)
Andreas Roehler writes:
as FSF assignment policy was raised again at
python-mode@python.org, please permit to ask you a
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I am not a lawyer, and I don't speak for the FSF or the Emacs Project.
I do speak for the XEmacs Project until such time as someone feels
like complaining about it. :-)
Andreas Roehler writes:
as FSF assignment policy was raised again at
AFAIS every Emacs-file is inspired by many, many others
from the very beginning. We see almost always a plenty
of revisions with a lot of people involved.
Inspiration is irrelevant to copyright law. It is concerned
with the authorship of the code.
If a file has been in Emacs for
Andreas Roehler writes:
The question already touched so far is, if or how copyright might
declared with respect to programs.
Sure, but that is entirely irrelevant to the assignment issue. The
assignment policy takes current copyright law as given.
So I don't think this is a useful
