Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What is your view on the GNU software that does not have a copyright
  > assignment, and not even a DCO?

It is free software, but the FSF cannot enforce the copyleft for it.
Also, the more contributors it has, the more risk that one will not
have had the right to contribute.

  > IMO, it would be more important for Glibc and GCC to maintain the
  > copyright assignment than it is for Emacs.

I agree completely.  Those developers made a grave, foolish mistake.
I wish I could have stopped them.

I will do everything within my power to prevent more such mistakes.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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