Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I don't resist asking: does relinquishing copyright of a work to
   the "Free Software Foundation" a "nonprofit with a worldwide
   mission to promote computer user freedom" really say nothing
   about what values one wishes to endorse?

Those are the values the FSF promotes, not the person assigning their
copyright to the FSF.  They also do not "relinquishing" their rights;
after signing a copyright assignment you still can use the code you
wrote as you see fit, even license it under a non-free license.