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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:39:08 +0200

> From: George Plymale II <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:44:04 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >    [...] 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.
>    
> That sounds interesting, but I would like to know more of the specifics
> about that. Is there a place where I can find very detailed information
> about this specific "license" which is "granted back to contributors?"

When you sign the copyright assignment, the text of that assignment
includes the above-mentioned permissions.  If you want, I can cite the
text as it appears in my assignment agreements, I don't believe that
text is any kind of secret.



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