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Re: Copyright question
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Copyright question |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:44:54 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
'n Morgen Andreas!
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:55:14AM +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 schrieb Glenn Morris:
> > "??smail Dönmez" wrote:
> > > Of course he can relicense it
> > This was not as obvious to me as it was to others, since we assign
> > our past and future rights to the FSF. But looking at the details,
> > they grant rights back to the original author, so if there is a
> > "pristine" version of org.texi that is solely your own work, you can
> > probably do what you like with it.
> What means "pristine"? New from the scratch?
No, the state it was in before others edited it.
> Copyright-assigment policy will lead to burocracy.
Yes. But it also prevents other, worse, bureaucracy (yes, it's much
easier to spell in German ;-).
> It will discourage people and stiffle their creativity. And probably it
> will shadow reputation of FSF, which is to deplore not only for Emacs's
> sake.
It hasn't stifled my creativity. What the copyright assignment is really
about is when "my" copyright is violated, I've got the FSF to take up the
legal cudgels, something I couldn't do on my own.
> I miss the human maintainer and copyright-notice in the sources. It was
> always nice to read. Maintainer FSF reads terrible.
I agree fully. Can't people be proud of their contributions and leave
their name in?
> Greetings
>
> Andreas Roehler
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Copyright question, (continued)
Re: Copyright question, David Hansen, 2008/06/12
Re: Copyright question, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/12
- Re: Copyright question, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/12
- Re: Copyright question, İsmail Dönmez, 2008/06/12
- Re: Copyright question, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/12
- Re: Copyright question, Andreas Röhler, 2008/06/13
- Re: Copyright question,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Copyright question, Miles Bader, 2008/06/13
- Re: Copyright question, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/13
- Re: Copyright question, Andreas Röhler, 2008/06/13
- Re: Copyright question, David Kastrup, 2008/06/13
Re: Copyright question, David Kastrup, 2008/06/12
Re: Copyright question, Don Armstrong, 2008/06/12
Re: Copyright question, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/13