From: Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New maintainer
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:48:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obdbboxd.fsf@breezy.my.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppxru1j9.fsf@gmail.com>
Jambunathan K writes:
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> And it does not take too big a brain to understand why: if people
>> were allowed to retract their assignment when they want for changes
>> that have been published, the copyright assignment process would
>> undermine the whole purpose of the GPL license, which is to make
>> it possible to let *others* contribute to free code.
>
> As a maintainer of GNU project, I expect that you should have a basic
> understanding of the purpose of the copyright assignment and GPL
> license. From what I read above, I am not convinced that you have the
> right understanding. Your articulation is clearly confusing and falling
> short.
As a former teacher of copyright law (University of Sydney), I think
that Bastien displays a very clear understanding of the effects of
copyright assignment. Your understanding is less than clear. Bastien
gets a "Distinction" in my class. You do not.
Of course, I know that you will think that I am confused.
Bastien, thanks for your patience and help during your time in the
hotseat. You've done a marvelous job.
>
> See
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright
>
> You assign copyright to FSF so that you don't have to enforce GPL. By
> assigning, one outsources the legal work of actual enforcing to FSF.
> Single holder of rights just makes the legal procedures lot more easy.
>
> A contract that cannot be enforced is worthless. A license that you
> cannot enforce is equally so.
>
> FSF says, assign me the rights, I will go after all the violators and
> force them to comply with GPL.
>
> Jambunathan K.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 19:48 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 [this message]
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
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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