From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New maintainer
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:41:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6AB1AEDA-F11E-422B-AE80-7965F7496120@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5cccnpr.fsf@gmail.com>
On 21.4.2013, at 10:06, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Well, the FSF's intention here is to make sure that contributors report
>>> back when they change employers, and the new employer doesn't want that
>>> his employees contribute to some GNU project (maybe because that project
>>> is in the same business as the company). So I think of that more of a
>>> safety measure in order not to run into long-running, painful
>>> lawsuits.
>
> You are missing out an important aspect - that of "enforcement". An
> organization will most likely "choose to enforce" but an RJH (like me)
> won't.
>
> That is, the employer can (presumably) send his lawyer to a the court
> with the employment contract and say
>
> "Employee can assign rights (and FSF can very well accept it). But
> the assignation has no legal validity because it is not within
> employee's right to do so. Employee himself agreed that he will
> abide by <whatever> while on our pay. We are asserting and
> enforcing our position now."
>
> For an assignment to have legal validity, multiple parties - FSF,
> contributor and contributor's employer - should *converge*.
>
> When there is no convergence of *all* parties , the "assignment" stands
> on weaker grounds.
>
> Standing on weaker ground is precisely what FSF wants to avoid at all
> costs.
>
> Jambunathan K.
This discussion is now considered off-topic for this list.
Please take it elsewhere.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-18 16:53 New maintainer Bastien
2013-04-18 17:10 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 18:10 ` John Hendy
2013-04-18 18:20 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 18:38 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 19:48 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-04-18 20:07 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 20:16 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-04-19 8:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-04-20 7:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-21 8:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-21 12:41 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-04-18 18:53 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 17:19 ` Glyn Millington
2013-04-18 18:14 ` Aaron Ecay
2013-04-18 18:15 ` Rasmus
2013-04-18 18:23 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 18:20 ` Detlef Steuer
2013-04-18 18:26 ` François Pinard
2013-04-18 19:58 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-04-18 20:07 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-18 20:13 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 20:16 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2013-04-18 21:52 ` Tom Davey
2013-04-20 8:29 ` Ian Barton
2013-04-19 0:24 ` Charles Berry
2013-04-19 7:07 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-19 0:32 ` Bernt Hansen
2013-04-19 1:02 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-04-19 4:12 ` Noorul Islam Kamal Malmiyoda
2013-04-19 6:09 ` Robert Klein
2013-04-19 7:00 ` Christian Moe
2013-04-19 7:58 ` Thank you very much Bastien! Hello Carsten! (was: New maintainer) Karl Voit
2013-04-19 9:36 ` New maintainer Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-19 9:59 ` Sean O'Halpin
2013-04-19 11:33 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-04-19 12:52 ` Adolfo Benedetti
2013-04-19 12:53 ` Rainer Stengele
2013-04-19 14:30 ` Russell Adams
2013-04-19 16:04 ` Christopher Allan Webber
[not found] ` <CAFChFyjpy2R10gJmxJ-DKDbAVjj6MnD5JN+vX5bY5MvHbf3z3w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-20 1:03 ` Fwd: " Gary Oberbrunner
2013-04-21 10:24 ` T.F. Torrey
2013-04-21 10:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-21 13:22 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 14:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-21 18:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-21 22:39 ` Bastien
2013-04-22 7:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-21 22:18 ` AG
2013-04-22 10:27 ` Julian M. Burgos
2013-04-22 16:53 ` Jay Kerns
2013-04-22 16:55 ` Matt Price
2013-04-23 16:46 ` Jason Dunsmore
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