Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

[Daniel Krueger]

Hey,

sorry for being so inactive in the last days (weeks?), I'm just having
some free time after my final exams here.

Yeah, I would assign the copyright to the FSF, I already read this but
thought I'll cope with that later^^

- Daniel

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:
>> Since these are relatively large changes, you'll also need to do a
>> copyright assignment. We assign the copyright on Guile to the Free
>> Software Foundation because under US law, the owner of a copyrighted
>> work is sometimes the only person with the power to sue over
>> violations of copyright. The FSF wants to be able to sue if people
>> violate the GPL, so we assign copyright.
>
> I'd just like to add that suing is a last resort and extremely rare,
> only done when companies use our software and blatantly refuse to give
> their users the rights that are guaranteed to _all_ users by the GPL.
>
> The policy of the FSF regarding GPL violations was explained well by
> Eben Moglen: <http://www.geof.net/research/2006/moglen-notes>
>
>   When I went to work for Richard Stallman in 1993, he said to me at
>   the first instruction over enforcing the GPL, "I have a rule.  You
>   must never let a request for damages interfere with a settlement for
>   compliance."  I thought about that for a moment and I decided that
>   that instruction meant that I could begin every telephone
>   conversation with a violator of the GPL with magic words: We don't
>   want money.  When I spoke those words, life got simpler.  The next
>   thing I said was, We don't want publicity.  The third thing I said
>   was, We want compliance.  We won't settle for anything less than
>   compliance, and that's all we want.  Now I will show you how to make
>   that ice in the wintertime.  And so they gave me compliance.  Which
>   had been defined mutually as ice in the wintertime.
>
> Unfortunately, there are many corporations that will violate the GPL
> without remorse unless we have the _ability_ to sue them.
>
>> Please see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html for more
>> information, or email address@hidden to fill out a form.
>
> I should also mention that I'm _extremely_ allergic to legalese, and can
> literally count on one hand the number of agreements I have signed in
> the last decade, but the FSF legalese I was asked to sign was
> refreshingly fair and reasonable.
>
>     Mark