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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright of contributions to org-mode
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:05:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51406B89.6020502@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwu7ecxl.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>

Am 13.03.2013 12:50, schrieb Bastien:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I will write GLPv3 or later and not specify this further, OK?
>
> I'd state it like this:
>
>    "... you are placing this changes under the same licensing terms
>    than those under which GNU Emacs is published:
>
>    ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>    ;; (at your option) any later version.
>
>    If at the time you submit or push these changes you have active
>    copyright assignment papers..."
>
> Maybe that's a bit heavy-handed, but it avoids any confusion about the
> "or" in "GNU GPLv3 or any later"...
>
>

Or maybe drop that sentence. GPL is a complete different matter, as mentioned earlier :)
You may assign copyright also without GPL ... etc. It's at the receiver to choose the license than.

Cheers

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 10:50 Copyright of contributions to org-mode Carsten Dominik
2013-03-13 11:12 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-13 11:34   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-13 11:13 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2013-03-13 11:33   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-13 11:50     ` Bastien
2013-03-13 12:05       ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2013-03-13 12:10         ` Bastien
2013-03-13 12:35           ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-13 12:54             ` Bastien
2013-03-13 12:56             ` Carsten Dominik

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